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 ...

There is something shocking about trying to save one species by killing nearly half a million of another species. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed in a plan to save the ...

One Owl Species Is Being Removed to Save Another and the Debate Has Everyone Talking ...

A taken barred owl is not done so in vain. From each killed barred owl, biologist Mark Higley takes as much information as possible from body measurements, blood and stomach samples, to feather ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Barred owls, with their vivid brown stripes, are acting like bullies of the forest in the Northwest, driving their smaller cousins, the northern spotted owl, ...

To save one vulnerable owl species, the federal government has a contentious plan: killing hundreds of thousands of another owl species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said its proposal, released ...

An audacious federal plan to protect the spotted owl would eradicate hundreds of thousands of barred owls in the coming years. An audacious federal plan to protect the spotted owl would eradicate ...

ARCATA, Calif. — The hooting had died down and the two bird lovers faced the immensity of the dark forest. Scanning his light among the redwoods, Danny Hofstadter listened. The distant ocean sounded ...

[WATCH: In the video player above, get a rare look at Great Horned Owl nest.] (WJW) — What’s that sound? Wildlife experts in Ohio say an eerie hissing sound coming from the trees could be a young ...

Barred owls are notoriously aggressive and territorial, and have been known to attack humans, even when seemingly unprovoked. Now, the federal government plans to authorize killing up to 450,000 ...

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 ...