According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, barred owls are competing for the available habitat with spotted owls and the spotted owls are losing the battle.
Fewer than 2,000 spotted owl pairs survive in Oregon, despite logging restrictions and decades of efforts to protect the species. “Northern spotted owls are at a tipping point, and both barred ...
All species live where they do after range expansion ... Both lawsuits argue that the wildlife agency is using the barred owl as a scapegoat for its mismanagement of spotted owl habitat.