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

UC Santa Barbara’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration and the Ojai Raptor Center release the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— In response to a March 2024 petition by conservation groups, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has found that protecting the western burrowing owl under the California ...

On Friday, the Ojai Raptor Center released a rehabilitated burrowing owl into UCSB's Coil Oil Point open space.

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 ...

This removal strategy can be employed in other large-scale construction projects. California Burrowing Owl Consortium. 1993. Burrowing owl survey protocol and mitigation guidelines. Journal of Raptor ...

A burrowing owl at Shoreline Park in Mountain View ... as well as other parts of California, under the state’s Endangered Species Act. The law requires that state and local agencies provide ...

The Marin nonprofit has joined a coalition of conservation groups defending a federal plan to kill invasive barred owls in ...

SANTA BARBARA, California (KSBY ... its original name in Chumash was some variant of 'pokoy,' which is burrowing owl," Chapman said. These unique birds used to be prevalent in Santa Barbara ...