Lila Seidman covers wildlife for the L.A. Times and wrote about how the little goofy owl is under threat.

But human population explosion has reduced the charismatic western burrowing owl's breeding populations by more than 60 percent, and counting. Early accounts of the owl in California described it as ...

State wildlife officials are asking for the public's thoughts on whether to list the western burrowing owl as a threatened or ...

Dr. Lynne Trulio, Professor of Environmental Studies at San Jose State University, has been studying Western Burrowing Owls (Athenae cunicularia hypogeae) for over 20 years. She and her colleagues ...

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

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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.

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.

The Center continues to protect western burrowing owls' habitat from urban sprawl throughout the Southwest and California, and to defend these birds' against all other threats too, from fracking to ...