Burrowing Owls in Cesar Chavez Park, Berkeley

Burrowing Owls are lovable, cute, adorable, so cool – that’s what people say when they see one. Berkeley’s Cesar Chavez Park is one of the very few places on the Pacific Coast where you have a chance to see a Burrowing Owl — or maybe two or three — in an afternoon’s walk.

This book is packed with more than 100 photographs backed by a narrative that draws on the scholarly literature about these rare and endangered birds. Chapters explore why we love them so much, where and when we can find them, what they eat and when they sleep and what they do when it rains, who are their friends and their foes, and how they and we fit into the bigger picture.

The author has taken more than 3,000 photos, published more than 350 blog posts and posted more than 300 YouTube videos about these birds, and is a leading advocate for their protection. 

This popular book is available as a Kindle ebook, an Amazon paperback and an Amazon hardcover for online ordering, or in a modified edition as an IngramSpark paperback available for ordering in bookstores.

Here’s a sample chapter, the one called “Friends,” about the owls and the squirrels: