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 ...

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What Does a Barred Owl Look Like? Barred owls are large brownish and white striped or “barred” raptors with no visible feather tufts on their heads. Unlike many of its owl relatives with yellow eyes, ...

An audacious federal plan to protect the spotted owl would eradicate hundreds of thousands of barred owls in the coming years. Northern spotted owl populations have declined by up to 80 percent over ...

Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including ...

Federal officials are planning to hire hunters with shotguns to exterminate tens of thousands of cat-sized barred owls in California and the Pacific Northwest as the birds "invade" from the east. The ...