Imagine being a Barred Owl mother living on the West Coast of the United States. It’s your first time having babies. They are a couple months old and still relying on you for food. One night you hear the sound of your own voice so you go to check out that hoot only you never return to your children because the US FWS equipped men with speakers and pew pew you were meant by a firing squad when you heard the sound of your own hoot. The next night the same thing happens this time dad goes to invest