EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Naomi Fraga, a botanist with the nonprofit California Botanic Garden, inspects Purple owl’s clover in Kern County, Calif., on April 27, 2023. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialA Central Park staff member peers through binoculars at Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo, in New York on Feb. 9, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialFlaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl who left the Central Park Zoo after his mesh enclosure was vandalized, perches high in the branches of a conifer in Central Park in Manhattan on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)