The barred owl looks for existing cavities, but does little more to prepare a nest than move in. Great horned owls prefer to take over existing nests from hawks, herons, crows and even squirrels ...

The barred owl looks for existing cavities, but does little more to prepare a nest than move in. Great horned owls prefer to take over existing nests from hawks, herons, crows and even squirrels ...

To Save Threatened Owl, Another Species Is Shot The rare northern spotted owl species faces habitat loss and, now, intruding barred owls. A biologist, and the federal government, have made a ...

Hofstadter has been carrying out the most expansive barred owl removal effort to date — a research project involving six hunters that has killed more than 1,000 owls in Northern California since ...

ARCATA, Calif. — The hooting had died down and the two bird lovers faced the immensity of the dark forest. Scanning his light among the redwoods, Danny Hofstadter listened. The distant ocean ...

“Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?” Say it slowly and that’s the well-known call of the barred owl. But they don’t really care who’s making dinner, so what’s all the hooting about?

I heard a barred owl hooting one night in the woods that surround my house. A few nights later, I heard a great horned owl, with a different, descending pattern of hoots. What I heard was probably ...

Oh, happy day, oh, happy Earth Day! Hear the exuberant call of the barred owls at Stumpy Lake and be glad you live on this planet. Thanks to Charlie Bruggemann, I am bringing you an Earth Day greet… ...

A barred owl perches on a tree branch amid air plants in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Florida. Klaus Nigge/National Geographic Creative. By 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Service had decided that the ...

Barred owls began invading spotted owl territory in British Columbia in 1959, then expanded into Washington and Oregon around 1970, reaching California by the mid-1970s.