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 ...

A species of small, furry owls who nest underground in open fields are in imminent danger of extinction and may get a lifeline extended from the California Fish and Game Commission. A petition to list ...

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 ...

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 ...

A California burrowing owl. Courtesy Scott and Heather Artis/Center for Biological Diversity via Bay City News. Environmental advocates on Tuesday, March 5, urged the California Fish and Game ...

State wildlife officials are asking for the public's thoughts on whether to list the western burrowing owl as a threatened or endangered species in California. The California Department of Fish and ...

Parker Christensen, a local Eagle Scout candidate, has selected his Eagle service project aimed at aiding the repopulation of the threatened burrowing owl, which once flourished in Yolo County. Due to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...