Here is an overview of all the work the City of Mountain View is doing to save the burrowing owl, including my project, shown from the perspective of a volunteer on December 13th, 2019.
00:00 Intro
00:13 Shoreline Park’s History as a Landfill
01:25 The Protected Animal Species at Shoreline
03:23 Animal Rescues
03:46 The Shorebird Egret Rookery
03:59 Introduction to the Western Burrowing Owl
04:31 Their Rate of Decline and Why
06:29 Pictures of Burrowing Owl Chicks
06:56 The Burrowing Owl Banding Project
08:44 What Burrowing Owls Eat
09:04 The Supplemental Feeding Study
09:23 The Habitat Enhancement Project
10:19 Some of the Plants We’re Planting
11:19 The Relocation Program
13:45 How to Suppress Non-Native Plants
14:25 What Volunteers Do at Plantings
14:44 It’s Tough to Save Them
See savetheburrowingowl.org for more information.
