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California wildlife policymakers voted to consider listing the Western burrowing owl under the state Endangered Species Act amid rapid population declines. 'Goofy' owls that nest underground ...
A renewed effort to list burrowing owls under the California Endangered Species Act just cleared an early hurdle. Conservationists say the situation for the owls that nest underground has only ...
The petition requests endangered status for burrowing owls in southwestern California, central-western California and the San Francisco Bay Area, and threatened status for burrowing owls in the Central Valley and southern desert range.
Western burrowing owls. The western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) nests at Shoreline Park near the mouth of Stevens Creek. In 2008, Mountain View evicted a pair of burrowing owls so that it could sell a parcel of land to Google to build a hotel at Shoreline Boulevard and Charleston Road. [26]
Advocates say the decline of the burrowing owl in California has accelerated. They want the state to add the bird to the endangered or threatened list. Burrowing owl faces 'death by a thousand ...
Threatened burrowing owl in Antioch. In late 2008, western burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia) moved into a 25-acre (10 ha) housing development slated for construction. [61] In November 2009 the California Department of Fish & Game gave the developer permission to evict the owls before nesting season begins in February 2010. The birds regularly ...
Burrowing owls statewide will be protected while the California Department of Fish and Wildlife conducts a full status review, which could last 12 to 18 months.
Urban Bird Foundation was adopted by Earth Island Institute on July 24, 2010 as Burrowing Owl Conservation Network. [10] [13] Earth Island Institute provided the organization with fiscal sponsorship and administrative support for their grassroots efforts [18] until 2018 when Urban Bird Foundation incorporated in California as an independent nonprofit public benefit corporation and received 501 ...