Only about 225 breeding pairs are left in central-western and southwestern California. Burrowing owl numbers are also declining in the Central Valley, which has fewer than 1,500 breeding pairs, mostly ...

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.

central-western California and the San Francisco Bay Area, and threatened status for burrowing owls in the Central Valley and southern desert range.