Spotted owls are disappearing fast, and federal cuts could mean no one’s left to count them A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif.

Scanning his light among the redwoods, Danny Hofstadter listened. The distant ocean sounded like wind. There was nothing more from the barred owl that he and his colleague, Madeleine Cameron, had ...

Officials said northern spotted owl populations in the northern half of the species’ range ‒ where barred owls have moved in most aggressively ‒ have dropped by more than 75% in 20 years.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said its proposal, released last week, might be the only way to save the spotted owl, whose population has rapidly decreased in recent decades due to competition ...

To save the spotted owl from possible extinction, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a plan to kill nearly 500,000 barred owls by deploying trained shooters into West Coast forests.

Northern spotted owl populations have declined by up to 80 percent over the last two decades. As few as 3,000 remain on federal lands, compared with 12,000 in the 1990s. Gerry Ellis/Minden Pictures ...

The spotted owl got most of the blame because it was easy to blame them and it was undeserved,” Henson said. “It definitely had an impact, but not as bad as a lot of the timber industry folks ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday removed more than 3 million acres of Pacific Northwest land from the protected habitat of the northern spotted owl, 15 times the amount it had ...

Barred owl poses threat to northern spotted owl In the USFWS release, it stated that the decision was based on “a rigorous scientific report that was peer-reviewed by academic, industry and ...

SALEM, Ore. — The Northern Spotted Owl was already struggling before 2020. But this year's Labor Day wildfires brought another major blow to the iconic but fragile population of birds, pushing ...

1980s: Research indicates owl numbers drop as loggers harvest in older stands. June 26, 1990: Spotted owl is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Yet owl numbers continue to dwindle, and the threats it faces aren't all manmade. The barred owl is pushing the spotted owl out of its habitat, and biologists worry that sudden oak disease could ...