Cumberland Police say they helped rescue an injured barred owl found in a roadway late Thursday night. The bird appeared injured and was unable to fly. Officers say they consulted with the Maine ...

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 ...

A barred owl at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, in Oregon. (Ray Bosch/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) A controversial plan to kill up to half a million invasive barred owls to protect endangered ...

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, ...

A controversial plan to kill up to half a million invasive barred owls to protect endangered spotted owls is in jeopardy after the Trump administration terminated three critical grants funding the ...

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 ...

A controversial plan to kill up to half a million invasive barred owls to protect endangered spotted owls is in jeopardy after the Trump administration terminated three critical grants funding the ...

Rep. Troy E. Nehls (R-Texas), shown arriving at the U.S. Capitol in May 2025, called the owl-culling plan "a waste of Americans' hard-earned tax dollars." (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images ...

An unusual alliance of Republican lawmakers and animal rights advocates, together with others, is creating storm clouds for a plan to protect one threatened owl by killing a more common one. Last ...

The U.S. Forest Service plan is part of a strategy to save endangered spotted owls in Washington, Oregon and California. A controversial plan to kill up to half a million invasive barred owls to ...