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Bay Area burrowing owls are on the brink of extinction

Conservation groups are urging California officials to protect populations throughout the state under the Endangered Species Act…

March 27, 2024 by Amanda Bartlett | SFGATE

When Nicole Weger shows up to work at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA in Burlingame, the first thing she does is get a head count of every animal in her care.

There are opossums that have been hit by cars, songbirds that have smashed into windows, and squirrels that have gotten caught in glue traps. Some require feedings every half hour, while others prefer to be left alone. But for the past few years, one species tucked away in a cluster of aviaries spanning half the size of a basketball court has been barely hanging from the brink of extinction in the Bay Area: the burrowing owl. [ read more… ]

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PRESS RELEASE

Conservation groups filed a petition Tuesday with the California Fish and Game Commission seeking protection for Western burrowing owls in five parts of the state under the California Endangered Species Act.

March 5, 2024

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Conservation groups petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission today to protect five imperiled populations of the western burrowing owl under the California Endangered Species Act.

The petition seeks endangered status for burrowing owls in southwestern California, central-western California and the San Francisco Bay Area, and threatened status for burrowing owls [ read more… ]

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Environmentalists ask California to protect burrowing owls

The Center for Biological Diversity and six other groups officially asked the state Fish and Game Commission to protect the owl populations in five parts of the state…

March 5, 2024 by Michael Cabanatuan | San Francisco Chronicle

The number of burrowing owls — small, cute creatures that live below ground in grasslands and deserts all over the state — is shrinking, wildlife experts say.

On Tuesday, a coalition of conservation groups filed a petition with the state seeking to protect the birds by declaring them an endangered or threatened species [ read more… ]

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Burrowing Owl Courtship — Photo credit: John Ehrenfeld.

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Catherine joined Cache Creek Conservancy at the Capay Open Space Park for Explore on October 22nd. Nature Backpack kickoff. Burrowing Owl Preservation Society displayed our educational taxidermy for the public.

https://cachecreekconservancy.org/explore-nature-at-capay-open-space-park/

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Warehouse developer gets lease near Ontario airport, site of nesting burrowing owls

Small, furry owls nesting underground in these empty fields would be at risk, environmental groups say.

December 23, 2021 by Steve Scauzillo | San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Ontario International Airport approved a lease of nearly 200 acres of empty fields for industrial buildings, a move that will generate future revenue but has prompted objections from environmental groups who say the property is home to rare, nesting burrowing owls

Under the agreement approved Thursday, Dec. 23, CanAm Ontario LLC, a venture formed by San Antonio-based USAA Real Estate Co. and McDonald Property Group of Newport Beach, paid the Ontario airport a nonrefundable $10 million deposit for the right to develop the land, located east [ read more… ]

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