and threatened status for burrowing owls in the Central Valley and southern desert range. The only owl species that nests and roosts underground, the burrowing owl was formerly widespread in ...

Look for burrowing owls perched on fence posts or other low ... Equally comfortable nesting in the cactuses of the desert southwest as in the forests of the far north, the great horned is one ...

National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating. This month–the lost women of the Viking Age.

A small population of California burrowing owls is getting a helping hand when it comes to romance—from a team of devoted scientists. Finding a mate isn’t just about love for California ...

It was an owl-like theropod and measured only 2 feet long. Shuvuuia lived around 75 million to 81 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, according to ...

The burrowing owl is the only owl species that lives underground, digging its own burrow or taking over abandoned ones made by other animals ...

There's plenty of air in the tiny spaces between grains of sand; the problem for sand-burrowing animals is how to get that air into their lungs while keeping the sand out ...

Since then, she's returned to her home state of New York; and the property, well it's been gifted to a wildlife organization for the preservation of burrowing owl and gopher tortoise habitat.