In the vast urban sprawl of Arizona, the habitat of the tiny western burrowing owl is being destroyed—prompting ...

The burrowing owl isn't your average owl: It doesn't live in trees, and it's not nocturnal. It makes its nest underground — usually in abandoned rodent burrows — and is active both day and night. But ...

I love the rule breakers in nature. People tend to pigeon-hole (sorry for the pun) birds and animals into categories not based on facts but on how we perceive them to be. We think that if they are ...

Early accounts of the owl in California described it as one of the state's most common birds. In the late 1860s, according to one ornithologist, “burrowing owls stood on every little knoll” around San ...

It’s kind of hard not to be smitten with the burrowing owl. Standing just 9 inches tall and weighing less than a cup of coffee, these owls prefer to live in the ground, where they feed mainly on ...

The construction project would be near Edwards AFB main runway and had the potential not only to impact species protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), including the burrowing owl ...

SACRAMENTO — It's one of the smallest owl species in the world, but the loss of the California burrowing owl would be felt throughout our entire ecosystem and the California Department of Fish ...

A burrowing owl sits inside an entry tube of an artificial burrow. Jason Fidorra Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Pasco, WA In Washington, burrowing owls are rare. Their population has ...

With their comically big eyes, perpetually surprised expressions and long, spindly legs, the Florida burrowing owl is a pint-sized paradox, a bird of prey that prefers to live life underground.

A burrowing owl at Shoreline Park in Mountain View. Courtesy Tom Grey. For years, Mountain View has been at the forefront of conservation efforts to monitor and protect burrowing owls at Shoreline ...

"Coil Oil Point — its original name in Chumash was some variant of 'pokoy,' which is burrowing owl," Chapman said. These unique birds used to be prevalent in Santa Barbara, but the loss of ...