San Diego Zoo Global’s Burrowing Owl Program Achieves Milestone: Owls Released into Native Habitat Hatch Their First Chicks.

Escondido, California - San Diego Zoo Global scientists are celebrating a major conservation milestone for the organization’s Burrowing Owl Recovery Program. One of two burrowing owls released into their native range have successfully reproduced—and they have produced the program’s first chicks to be hatched in the wild.