It believe the barred owl. The spotted owl has never been endangered. The shot a barred owl and two days later the spotted owl was back, they don’t spontaneously appear out of thin air, they have to hide from the more aggressive but look alike barred owl. And why did the barred owl appear in the NW, they started putting out wildfires which let the barred owl hop from east of the Rockies to the west coast since there was always habit for it to move instead of burned out areas where there wouldn’t be able to survive and move through.