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 ...

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 ... It is believed that the dung may mask the scent of the owl’s odor from ground predators or that the dung attracts dung beetles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“They’re trespassing and we need these kids and adults off the fields because also we have the burrowing owls here and they are a threatened species so they are protected by state and federal ...

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.

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 ...