To save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, one plan suggests killing thousands of barred owls. Conservationists and ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – You may have noticed lately an increase in owl noises in your backyard or out for a walk– 22News is working for you with tips on how to spot an owl. A 22News viewer sent a ...

JENNER HEADLANDS PRESERVE ― Ryan Berger stands motionless, head cocked, index finger in the air, as the call comes from the darkened redwood forest. Four notes dropping down at the end, repeated over ...

For researchers, endangered and threatened birds like the Northern Spotted Owl and the Marbled Murrelet can be incredibly hard to find and study in the wild. Now, new research shows that artificial ...

A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif. An academic partner on a U.S. Forest Service-led monitoring program for the endangered species said a federal ...

Yet spotted owl populations continued declining after barred owls started showing up on the West Coast several decades ago. Across the region at least half of spotted owls have been lost, with ...

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 ...

A group of 19 lawmakers signed a bipartisan letter last week, asking the federal government to halt a plan that aims to kill tens of thousands of barred owls along the West Coast, including in ...

Barred owls would be lured using megaphones to broadcast recorded owl calls, then shot with shotguns. Carcasses would be buried on site. The birds already are being killed by researchers in some ...