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’m happy with the work we’ve been able to do, but I think there’s a lot more to do.” Initiatives like this one serve as a kind of emergency intervention for burrowing owls in the absence ...

A small population of California burrowing owls is getting a helping hand when it comes to romance—from a team of devoted scientists. Finding a mate isn’t just about love for California ...

We’re talking, of course, about burrowing owls. Everyone loves the soda-can-sized raptors, it seems, and this Saturday gives you a chance to celebrate them with other owl lovers, too.

Avian flu is claiming the lives of iconic San Francisco Bay wildfowl, and the Trump administration can hardly be trusted to contain it.

Since then, she's returned to her home state of New York; and the property, well it's been gifted to a wildlife organization for the preservation of burrowing owl and gopher tortoise habitat.

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 ...