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 ...

Imagine walking through Muir Woods National Monument, taking in the symphony of nature — the haunting, beautiful hoots of owls echoing through towering trees at twilight. Suddenly, the serenity is ...

Last month in Virginia, news reports told the story of a barred owl that shimmied down a chimney and perched on the family’s Christmas tree, displacing the star placed at its apex. Around the same ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has pulled the trigger on a plan to kill more than 450,000 barred owls over 30 years to keep the northern spotted owl from being driven out of Oregon and Washington.

Across the forests of California, Oregon, and Washington, a contentious experiment is unfolding. The US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Barred Owl management strategy authorizes personnel to slaughter ...

A new study of nearly 800 barred owls on the West Coast shows the invasive predator feeds on 29 species given special conservation status by federal and state governments. The list includes mammals, ...

Barred owls are notoriously aggressive and territorial, and have been known to attack humans, even when seemingly unprovoked. Now, the federal government plans to authorize killing up to 450,000 ...