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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 ...
A high-pitched screech cuts the night air. Then silence. Minutes pass with only the low drone of crickets. Then you hear it, a soft, crescendoing hoot. "There she is," says Matthias Leu, chair of ...
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 ...
Join ciLiving Host Jaclyn Friedlander as she gets up close with Cypress the Barred Owl at Miller Park Zoo! Discover fun and fascinating facts about this beautiful owl, see its amazing features, and ...
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 ...
A new study of nearly 800 barred owls on the West Coast shows the invasive predator feeds on 29 species given special ...
DEI is apparently alive and well on the West Coast. The US government has begun shooting down up to 450,000 barred owls across California, Oregon and Washington — in a controversial culling effort to ...
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 ...