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9 fascinating burrowing owl facts

Forget the treetops—a burrowing owl nests underground. Some use the dens of other animals. Find out what these owls eat and ...
Oregonian

Burrowing owls decorate their dens, plus other fun facts on the small raptor

Research at the Global Owl Project’s human-made burrowing owl network in eastern Oregon has revealed some fascinating habits of the tiny raptors. Here are five things that project Director David ...
WLRN

As FAU grows, its beloved mascot the burrowing owl has fewer places to call home

FILE - A burrowing owl and three young chicks sit at the entrance to their nest in Brian Piccalo Park in Pembroke Pines, Fla. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Jose Camacho was frustrated ...
The Bellingham Herald

Tiny burrowing owls ‘evicted’ to make room for Pasco water plant. What happened next

A burrowing owl sits inside an entry tube of an artificial burrow. Jason Fidorra Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Pasco, WA In Washington, burrowing owls are rare. Their population has ...
AOL

Burrowing owl faces 'death by a thousand cuts,' advocates say

A burrowing owl in a busy park in Contra Costa County hidden among the rocky shoreline goes mostly unnoticed by passing parkgoers. (Lauren Bettino) It’s kind of hard not to be smitten with the ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Rare sightings of burrowing owls persist in Sonoma County

I fell in love with burrowing owls while attending college at the University of California, Davis, in the mid-‘90s. At that time, burrowing owls could regularly be seen in the agricultural fields and ...
PBS

Burrowing Owl: Creature Power

Chris and Martin are in the desert describing the places where the animals make their homes. The gila woodpecker, for example, makes holes in cacti where it lives and where other animals move into ...