The writer Franz Linz explores a federal plan to protect the spotted owl. By Soumya Karlamangla Northern spotted owls, which are losing a competition with barred owls over food and space in the ...

Kevin Larson was out for a jog in Tacoma’s North End in December when he felt something strike him. “It feels like somebody hit me in the back of the head with a rake,” he said of the early morning ...

(AP) — To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, US wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a ...

Congress of the Birds, based in Providence, Rhode Island, gave new wings to a barred owl rescued by police officers in the town of Charlestown after it likely ate poison and was hit by a car, The ...

Florida firefighters’ recent call can only be described as an absolute hoot. Members of the Winter Park Fire-Rescue Department had no choice but to wing it when they got a call from a panicked ...

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 ...

This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a barred owl in East Burke, Vt. (Don Ryan, Steve Legge / ...

No one was more surprised than Clayton Conner when an owl flew into his truck while he was driving. Conner said was driving along with his windows halfway down when a barred owl flew into his truck ...