Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the last five years, a stream of hopeful kids and grown men alike have filed on stage to compete in the natural-voice Owl Hoot ...

Invasive barred owls are implicated as a primary culprit in the decline of native Northern spotted owls, but many animal advocates oppose lethal countermeasures.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The U.S. Fish and Wildfire Service is pursuing a plan to cull thousands of barred owls saying the species is threatening the northern spotted owl. The two owl species are ...

New billboards featuring two cuddling barred owls are going up around Portland, but their message is anything but warm and fuzzy. The billboards, including seven in the Portland area and one in Eugene ...

Spend enough time in an old-growth forest or out on a high desert trail and you’ll eventually hear one: the deep, sonorous hoot of a great horned owl, or the barred owl’s unmistakable “who cooks for ...