William & Mary researchers hope their studies on barred owls will show how they are adapting to man-made environments. For over two years, researchers in the university’s biology department have been ...

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 ...

Bird diets provide a real treasure for research into the distribution and conservation of their prey, such as overlooked and rare bush-cricket species, point out scientists after studying the diet of ...

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, ...

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 ...