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How to Identify a Barred Owl

Learn what a barred owl looks like and what their call sounds like. Plus learn where you can spot these large owls in North ...
Los Angeles Times

A plan to shoot 450,000 owls — to save a different owl — could be in jeopardy

Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including ...
Los Angeles Times

House resolution seeks to stop plan to shoot nearly half a million owls

A Republican congressman introduced a resolution to stop a government plan to kill roughly 450,000 barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. The plan is intended to protect spotted owls. The plan, ...
E&E

Lawmakers float CRA to strike down owl-killing plan

Members are challenging a Biden-era decision on lethal controls for barred owls in a bid to save the northern spotted owl. A bipartisan House alliance is taking aim at a Biden-era Fish and Wildlife ...
Morningstar

Tribal Leaders Applaud Senate Rejection of Barred Owl Resolution Threatening Forest and Wildlife Health

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Intertribal Timber Council (ITC) is a nonprofit nation-wide consortium of Indian Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations, and individuals dedicated to ...
Gizmodo

Controversial Plan to Kill 500,000 Barred Owls in U.S. Clears Major Hurdle

To save the northern west’s spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) from extinction, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill up to 450,000 barred owls (Strix Varia) across California, ...