U.S. Fish and Wildlife is proposing killing half a million barred owls across Washington, Oregon and California to save a ...

The owl was found entangled in a yard decoration in Burlington County containing fishing line, a fish hook and a sinker, wildlife rescue workers said.

The Senate voted 25–72 to reject Sen. Kennedy’s bid to block a plan to kill 453,000 barred owls, sparking debate over costs, ...

SEATTLE — A U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposal to kill non-native owls to protect the endangered northern spotted owl has sparked controversy among conservation groups. Decades of work have been done to ...

A plan to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save spotted owls overcame a major threat when senators this week ...

Yes, there were second thoughts, admits ornithologist Jonathan Slaght as he talks about tracking the world’s largest owl. His interest in the endangered Blakiston’s fish owl took him to remote Russia, ...

Wildlife researcher Jonathan Slaght’s account of his five-year doctoral study of the elusive Blakiston’s fish owls of far eastern Russia is due out next week, delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The ...

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