They’re tiny, they're adorable and they’re Cape Coral’s official bird. We’re talking, of course, about burrowing owls. Everyone loves the soda-can-sized raptors, it seems, and this ...

Small, brown and speckled with bright, charismatic yellow eyes and long legs, burrowing owls are a historic, native species in the Tri-Cities. They are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty ...

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 ...

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

Finding a mate isn’t just about love for California burrowing owls, it’s about the survival of their species. That's why scientists are getting involved, pairing the birds with the best mate ...

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

Cape Coral is home to the largest population of burrowing owls in Florida, with an estimated 5,000 birds. Cape Coral’s most adorable homeowners just got a real estate boost. The Cape Coral City ...

burrowing owls documented by James Bond, the real Bond. In India, owls are loved as Lakshmi’s ride. Some parts of India also know them as ‘corpse bird’, drawn to cemeteries because of 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 ...