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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 ...
USA Today

There's a plan to kill 450,000 barred owls. Lawmakers want the Trump administration to stop it.

In August 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a plan to kill 450,000 invasive barred owls along the West Coast. The plan permits the lethal removal of the owls by attracting them with ...
KUOW

Killing barred owls to save northern spotted owls: Rethinking American wildlife conservation

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 ...
KING5

Plan to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save another PNW owl species set to begin

WASHINGTON, USA — A controversial plan to save one species in Washington state by killing another is set to begin soon. The Proposed Barred Owl Management Strategy developed by the U.S. Fish and ...
Kitsap Sun

There's a plan to kill thousands of owls in Washington. Some lawmakers want to stop it.

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 ...