In the vast urban sprawl of Arizona, the habitat of the tiny western burrowing owl is being destroyed—prompting conservationists to think creatively about how to help. A burrowing owl chick ...

Scientists say it might signal resiliency in face of future environmental pressures Eli Wizevich After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief ...

Rodents such as rats and mice will actively seek out gardens to burrow into soil and feed on any plants you have worked hard to grow but there is a natural way to keep them at bay ...

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 ...

Rats and mice can wreak havoc in gardens, burrowing into the soil and devouring plants that gardeners have painstakingly ...

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 ...

A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington.

A burrowing owl who was injured and nursed back to health at the Ojai Raptor Center (ORC) has a new home at a Goleta nature ...

Burrowing owls have adapted well to urban life ... "We need those predators in order to control rodents, both rats and rabbits.” Simply seeing a rat doesn’t mean there’s a problem requiring ...

Early accounts of the owl in California described it as one of the state's most common birds. In the late 1860s, according to one ornithologist, “burrowing owls stood on every little knoll” around San ...