While that do have the ability to fly, burrowing owls live up to their name and inhabit abandoned burrows in the ground.

If you know where some burrowing owl traditionally nest, get ready for some entertaining activities as they get ready to ...

As the name suggests, burrowing owls primarily roost and breed mainly in underground burrows, officials said. The burrows are often inherited secondhand from ground squirrels, "so a population of ...

Most Californians will never see a burrowing owl in the wild. The little, ground-dwelling birds are native to large swaths of the Western U.S. and Mexico. But over the last 30 years, their numbers ...

They are also killed by rodenticides and collisions with wind turbines and cars. The owls rely on burrowing mammals such as ground squirrels to excavate underground burrows for nesting and roosting.

They’re helping burrowing owls get their underground homes ready for the season. The site is home to deer, songbirds and North America’s largest population of burrowing owls, said Jon Bloom ...

Burrowing owls have suffered significant habitat loss due to exurban sprawl, conversion of grasslands to agricultural lands, development of large-scale wind and solar energy infrastructure and the ...

This photojournalism project is in the UP’s latest print issue, Vol. 32, “Earth Day: Exploring Environmental Research and Wildlife at FAU,” which can be found in the distribution boxes around the Boca ...

Burrowing owls, standing at about nine inches tall, sit on their perch right at hip level for us. People like Pascha Donaldson and Beverly Saltonstall love them. “Once you get involved ...

Cape Coral Wildlife Trust has acquired 81 lots to preserve burrowing owl habitat, thanks to a grant from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The owls thrive in the city's sandy ...