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While some species of burrowing owl can dig their own burrows, most species rely on burrowing animals to burrow holes that the owls can use as shelter and nesting space. [37] There is a high correlation between the location of burrowing animal colonies, like those of ground squirrels, with the presence of burrowing owls.
The barred owl's range overlaps with multiple other predators of similar prey species. Due to the time period barred owls are active, the most interaction occurs with other owl species. Of the owls in North America, about three-quarters are reliant on similar small mammal prey, usually rodents, with a mixture of other prey genera as supplements ...
Burrowing Owls at the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge. The Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge encompasses many varied habitats despite its desert location. Besides the Sonoran desert scrub, the refuge contains wetland, farmland, shoreline, and open water habitats. Several refuge habitats are intensively managed.
Owls may well be able to recognize individuals of their species by their unique voices. “Each individual great horned owl has a signature hoot,” Jennifer Ackerman reports in her book, "What an ...
A family portrait of burrowing owls in Florida. Open grasslands are shrinking where the tiny burrowing owl makes its home nesting in underground burrows. - Carlos Carreno/Moment RF/Getty Images/File.
A renewed effort to list burrowing owls under the California Endangered Species Act just cleared an early hurdle. Conservationists say the situation for the owls that nest underground has only ...
A 1992–93 survey reported no breeding burrowing owls in Napa, Marin, and San Francisco counties, and only a few in San Mateo and Sonoma. The Santa Clara County population is declining and restricted to a few breeding locations, leaving only Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties as the remnant breeding range. [29]
California wildlife policymakers voted to consider listing the Western burrowing owl under the state Endangered Species Act amid rapid population declines.