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A. c. hypugaea (Bonaparte, 1825): western burrowing owl – Southern Canada through the Great Plains, south to Central America; listed as Apparently Secure [12] A. c. juninensis (Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1902): south Andean burrowing owl – Andes Mountains and foothills from central Perú to northwestern Argentina (may include A. c. punensis)
In March, the center, along with the Defenders of Wildlife, the Burrowing Owl Preservation Society, the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society, the Urban Bird Foundation, the Central Valley Bird Club ...
Western burrowing owls. The western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) nests at Shoreline Park near the mouth of Stevens Creek. In 2008, Mountain View evicted a pair of burrowing owls so that it could sell a parcel of land to Google to build a hotel at Shoreline Boulevard and Charleston Road. [26]
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 ...
The California Fish and Game Commission unanimously voted to protect western burrowing owls throughout California as a “candidate” species under the California Endangered Species Act.
The western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) is the only known owl that spends the majority of its life underground, including raising their young. Unlike most owls which are mainly nocturnal , burrowing owls are active during the day as well.
Western barn owl: Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769) 11 American barn owl: Tyto furcata (Temminck, 1827) 12 Eastern barn owl: Tyto javanica (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 13 Andaman masked owl: Tyto deroepstorffi (Hume, 1875) 14 Ashy-faced owl: Tyto glaucops (Kaup, 1852) 15 African grass owl: Tyto capensis (Smith, A, 1834) 16 Eastern grass owl: Tyto longimembris ...
The burrowing owl will borrow a burrow created by a burrowing rodent. The elf owl, our smallest, often lives in a hole in a cactus. Here's a barred owl.