The National Audubon Society’s 125th Christmas Bird Count will be held through Jan. 5. Today we show you some of California’s owls, particularly the burrowing owl, a candidate for the state’s ...

FLORENCE — Greg Clark gingerly handles a pair of cardboard carriers, each containing two small owls, as he joins a knot of sweating volunteers hammering stakes into the soil and shoveling dirt to seal ...

Cape Coral’s most adorable homeowners just got a real estate boost. The Cape Coral City Council approved the purchase of the first five lots under the Burrowing Owl Habitat Protection Grant Project at ...

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 just a few ...

Nearly a decade after Wild at Heart helped dig a habitat for the western burrowing owls at Zanjero Park, the raptor rescue nonprofit returned to relocate the ground-dwelling birds – uprooted by the ...

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 ...

I fell in love with burrowing owls while attending college at the University of California, Davis, in the mid-‘90s. At that time, burrowing owls could regularly be seen in the agricultural fields and ...

A burrowing owl seen in the Holtville, Calif., area. The population of the birds is declining in California, partly due to developers whose projects encroach on their habitats. (Carolyn Cole / Los ...

For the past 25 years, the San Diego Habitat Conservancy has worked to preserve natural habitats in the area. To celebrate, the group will throw an anniversary celebration on Saturday, April 26, from ...