The burrowing owl is the official bird of Cape Coral ... and we started writing down GPS coordinates and making maps and we slowly got the city involved," Windisch said. "Now it's the city ...

A burrowing owl stands near its nest along a road leading ... Chiono has each burrow marked on a GPS map, all spread out. She spends a lot of time helping these birds. “You can’t help but ...

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 ...

We petitioned in 2007 to re-establish protection for this rare bird. The ground-nesting western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea), once one of the most abundant grassland bird species in ...

If you know where some burrowing owl traditionally nest, get ready for some entertaining activities as they get ready to ...

A tiny, brown-feathered bird — a Western burrowing owl – perched inside of it, staring out at her with wide yellow eyes. Miller laughed out loud. “They seem like little people,” she said.

While that do have the ability to fly, burrowing owls live up to their name and inhabit abandoned burrows in the ground.

“We GPS every burrow that we mark and put it in the city records, so if anybody pulls a permit, they know that there’s a burrowing owl living on there,” said Saltonstall. “As the city gets ...