A high-pitched screech cuts the night air. Then silence. Minutes pass with only the low drone of crickets. Then you hear it, ...

The Barred Owl is considered “invasive” in the Pacific Northwest and it’s pushing the Northern Spotted Owl to extinction. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a plan — kill nearly half a million ...

The federal government will move ahead with plans to kill tens of thousands of barred owls in Washington, Oregon, and California to protect threatened spotted owls. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

If you have day-hiked in the Smokies, you have undoubtedly been monitored, unawares, from a tree cavity. The unseen watcher? A winged super-predator resting with one eye open, waiting for dusk or ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill around 15,000 barred owls each year in three Western states to help save the threatened northern spotted owl. An animal welfare group is now in federal ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has drawn two federal lawsuits from animal welfare groups alleging that a plan to cull invasive barred owls in national parklands — including three in Marin — ...