About 10 days ago, I ran into four pairs of burrowing owls in a small area along the frontage road between Sage Junction and ...

It’s almost midnight and a lone white pickup truck sits atop a grassy hill on a remote tract of government land near Dublin, California, that is used as a military training base. In the driver’s seat, ...

If you are at a loss as to what to give your friends and loved ones this holiday season, how about adopting a burrowing owl for everyone on your list? No, you may not buy owls to give away as pets.

JamulJamul — At a field in Jamul, a little owl stood sentry beside a pile of rocks, surveying the landscape with luminous, yellow eyes. The burrowing owl was guarding the tunnels that form its nesting ...

Jireh Deng’s excellent “death by a thousand cuts” article on the decline of burrowing owls in California is a spot-on description of the fate of these little owls in Southern California. Just eight ...

FLORENCE, AZ — 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 ...

A sudden burst of movement kicks up dust on what had seemed to be a vacant patch of dirt at Zanjero Park in central Gilbert. In the mid-morning sunlight, two bright yellow eyes stare forward, ...

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 ...

A burrowing owl in a busy park in Contra Costa County hidden among the rocky shoreline goes mostly unnoticed by passing parkgoers. (Lauren Bettino) It’s kind of hard not to be smitten with the ...

As populations of western burrowing owls decline in the state, the California Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to consider placing the species on the endangered list. According to the nonprofit ...

JAMUL, Calif. — At a field in Jamul, a little owl stood sentry beside a pile of rocks, surveying the landscape with luminous, yellow eyes. The burrowing owl was guarding the tunnels that form its ...