and since then the situation has become more dire for the bird — the only owl species to nest and roost in underground ...

A burrowing owlet peers out from its burrow ... You can see historically they were more open. The owls could nest in these areas and forage in adjacent sites, but now they're being confined ...

The burrowing owl isn't your average owl: It doesn't live in trees, and it's not nocturnal. It makes its nest underground — usually in abandoned rodent burrows — and is active both day and night. But ...

Another SpaceX Starship launch ended unsuccessfully on Thursday. Not long after the rocket launched from Texas, it broke apart in the sky above Florida. Those lucky enough to see it immediately took ...

Burrowing owls mate for life, too. And they’ll stay in the same nest if the conditions remain unchanged. But tall grass, nearby development, predators and other factors can make the owls pick up ...

An owl only a few weeks old was injured after falling 100 feet from her nest. Facebook screengrab from Tamarack Wildlife ...

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

Early accounts of the owl in California described it as one of the state's most common birds. In the late 1860s, according to one ornithologist, “burrowing owls stood on every little knoll” around San ...