Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fledgling barred owl sits in a tree at Muir Woods in Mill Valley, Calif. (Michael Macor / San Francisco Chronicle) The strange ...

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, to the brink of extinction. Once barred ...

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 ...

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, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Senators voted down a GOP resolution to cancel a plan to kill barred owls to protect the northern spotted owl in ...

A rare snowy owl native to the Arctic has been spotted around Milwaukee County and drawing some large crowds, as experts urge ...

In 1990, barred owls in a forest west of Corvallis, Oregon, occupied less than 2 percent of spotted owl sites; today, barred owls nest in 50 percent of them. Barred owls have yet to saturate Oregon ...

Fairfax has a new town mascot. The town has made the northern spotted owl its official bird in an effort to honor the area’s ecological heritage. The federally and state protected owl resides ...

The Senate could vote soon on a Congressional Review Act resolution targeting an effort to protect one owl by killing another. A fast-track congressional effort to strike down a Biden-era plan to save ...

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