A high-pitched screech cuts the night air. Then silence. Minutes pass with only the low drone of crickets. Then you hear it, a soft, crescendoing hoot. "There she is," says Matthias Leu, chair of ...

William & Mary researchers hope their studies on barred owls will show how they are adapting to man-made environments. For over two years, researchers in the university’s biology department have been ...

In August 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a plan to kill 450,000 invasive barred owls along the West Coast. The plan permits the lethal removal of the owls by attracting them with ...

The spotted owl has been a conservation flashpoint for more than 30 years. While habitat loss has been their historic foe, their most recent threat comes from within the owl family tree: the barred ...