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Cape Coral boasts the greatest density of Florida burrowing owls – tiny birds of prey that prefer to live life underground – ...

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

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 ...

Desantis says that to survive, the owls mostly eat bugs and rely on burrowing mammals to dig their tunnels, both of which are declining due to poison and pesticides. "All the flat places in ...

Burrowing owls used to nest in Alameda ... when alerted to a possible threat. The owls eat insects, such as grasshoppers and beetles, but also small animals like mice, snakes, frogs, and even ...

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

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 ...