The pygmy owl was first listed as endangered in 1997. In 2006, The Fish and Wildlife Services Agency removed them from the list not because there were no longer edangered (they still are) but rather because a federal court asked them to better explain the reason that they were listed as distinct.
There are now less than 30 pygmy owls in the whole state of Arizona. A group of consevationists are petitioning to have the pygmy owls relisted as endangerd, saying that they should never have been removed to begin with and are greatly in need of the protection of the Endangered Species Act (1973) in order to survive.
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