About 9 inches in height and with a wingspan around 21 inches, burrowing owls are among the smaller owls found in the Sunshine State. They prefer grasslands, which allow them to hide, and ...

Ground-Nesting Owls. Burrowing owls live in areas that have high concentrations of burrowing mammals. ©RichardSeeley/iStock via Getty Images.

To this day, the Imperial Valley is one of the last burrowing owl strongholds in California, which makes sense because it’s long gone undeveloped except for large-scale agriculture, a scenario ...

They say someone saw the owl on the ground and reported it. In that case it was the right decision, but the sanctuary does say that owls feel very at home on the ground in open spaces. Advertisement ...