To save the Spotted Owls in the Pacific Northwest, U.S. officials are planning to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released its final ...

A northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a barred owl, right, in East Burke, Vt. Barred owls are native to eastern North America but began moving ...

The northern spotted owl has a specific set of habitat needs, including old-growth, open-canopy forests, and an abundance of food. They primarily eat small rodents — such as northern flying ...

This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a barred owl in East Burke, Vt. Barred owls are native to ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill about 450,000 invasive barred owls to save spotted owls in the ... decades due to competition over food and shelter from an invasive owl ...

Killing 60,000 to 100,000 barred owls across a portion of California and the West would save the Spotted owl from extinction.

Federal officials are taking action to save a threatened and endangered owl, but it will come at a cost to another species. The goal is to help the Northern and California Spotted Owl from the ...

The barred owl is bigger, and can outcompete a spotted owl for food and territory. “Barred owls can come in and eat everything that spotted owls are eating plus more,” Cormier said.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed killing hundreds of thousands of barred owls over the next 30 years in an effort to protect the endangered northern spotted owl, which competes with ...

To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half ...

Killing 60,000 to 100,000 barred owls across a portion of California and the West would save the Spotted owl from extinction. ... open canopy forests and an abundance of food.

FILE - Wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night, Oct. 24, 2018, inside a lab in Corvallis, Ore. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) ...