The Friends of Beltzville State Park are hoping to lure some special visitors to the area — and they’d like to see them stay for a while. The group recently built and placed a barn owl nesting box in ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to kill nearly half a million barred owls throughout Washington, Oregon and California after a short-lived effort to halt the cull was thwarted in the ...

Barred owls are notoriously aggressive and territorial, and have been known to attack humans, even when seemingly unprovoked. Now, the federal government plans to authorize killing up to 450,000 ...

The U.S. Senate cleared the way Wednesday for wildlife agents to kill nearly 500,000 barred owls to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest. Meanwhile, barred owls could be moving in on native ...

The stereotypical owl in media depictions is one of the “horned” variety, one with pointy ear tufts, but that doesn’t fly with our predominant local hooters. To the point, the most commonly seen and ...

SEATTLE — A hiker believes he was attacked by an owl while he was walking on a trail at Discovery Park in Seattle. "All the sudden, I felt like I got hit over the head by a stick or something out of ...

The Trump administration’s budget slashers have taken aim at programs designed to protect the northern spotted owl, an endangered species whose habitat extends from the upper Pacific coast down to ...

Northern spotted owl numbers have continued to decline in North America’s Pacific Northwest, partly due to competition from barred owls considered invasive in the region. The spotted owl has been ...

[WATCH: In the video player above, get a rare look at Great Horned Owl nest.] (WJW) — What’s that sound? Wildlife experts in Ohio say an eerie hissing sound coming from the trees could be a young ...

You too can have a resident barred owl. Several years ago a couple renting our “cabin in the woods” put up a barred owl nesting box. Apparently it was the right size and the right height and the right ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Barred owls, with their vivid brown stripes, are acting like bullies of the forest in the Northwest, driving their smaller cousins, the northern spotted owl, ...

Jackson researchers had been attempting to trap the male barred owl for more than a week, but the wary raptor was proving elusive. First, the owl swooped in for the bait mouse but glanced off the trap ...