A new study of nearly 800 barred owls on the West Coast shows the invasive predator feeds on 29 species given special ...

Non-native barred owls are believed to have been responsible for a 65% to 85% decline in spotted owl populations between 1995 and 2017.

SEATTLE — A U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposal to kill non-native owls to protect the endangered northern spotted owl has sparked controversy among conservation groups. Decades of work have been done to ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to kill nearly half a million barred owls throughout Washington, Oregon and ...

The U.S. Senate rejected a resolution that would have stopped a controversial wildlife management plan: killing barred owls ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife is proposing killing half a million barred owls across Washington, Oregon and California to save a ...

Wildlife researcher Jonathan Slaght’s account of his five-year doctoral study of the elusive Blakiston’s fish owls of far eastern Russia is due out next week, delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The ...

Jonathan Slaght’s first encounter with Blakiston’s fish owl, the rare salmon-eating raptor that would become the focus of his doctoral thesis and this book, was accidental. On a hike in 2000, when he ...

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