As development pushes these charismatic owls from their underground nesting sites, a solar project aims to show that habitat ...

They’re tiny, they're adorable and they’re Cape Coral’s official bird. We’re talking, of course, about burrowing owls. Everyone loves the soda-can-sized raptors, it seems, and this Saturday gives you ...

HERMISTON — Deep in the sandy terrain of Rees Training Center, a small owl with bright yellow eyes peered from an artificial burrow that became home to the most successful burrowing owl colony in the ...

California’s western burrowing owls may soon see greater protections as a petition to list some populations of the bird as endangered has advanced through a state agency. This is the first major ...

The burrowing owl stands just 7 to 10 inches high and is the only owl species to nest underground. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) California wildlife policymakers have opted to protect the ...

Hurricanes Helene and Milton left many burrowing owls homeless, and Pascha Donaldson, a board member of the Cape Coral Wildlife Trust, is working hard to get them back into their burrows. Donaldson ...

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 ...

BROWARD COUNTY, Florida (WFOR) — A rare and threatened species of owl is recovering in an animal hospital after it was found with an injured wing on the side of the road in Broward County on Saturday, ...

RAMONA RAMONA — Five small but mighty owls were introduced to their new home on the Ramona Grasslands Preserve Tuesday — part of an ongoing effort to reverse the rare species’ shrinking population. At ...

HERMISTON, Ore. — Sixteen years after the burrowing owl population in Umatilla County bottomed out at only four nesting pairs, the population has hit a new high. The 2024 nesting season has seen 100 ...

Courtesy of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation This time of year, biologists and technicians are doing some spring cleaning of their own at the site of the decommissioned ...

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 and ...