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The burrowing owl is sometimes classified in the monotypic genus Speotyto (based on an overall unique morphology and karyotype). Osteology and DNA sequence data, though, suggests that the burrowing owl is a terrestrial member of the little owls genus (Athene), thus it is placed in that group today, by most authorities.
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.
A family portrait of burrowing owls in Florida. Open grasslands are shrinking where the tiny burrowing owl makes its home nesting in underground burrows.
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 ...
California wildlife policymakers voted to consider listing the Western burrowing owl under the state Endangered Species Act amid rapid population declines.
The type species was designated as the little owl (Athene noctua) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1841. [2] [3] The genus name is from the little owl which was closely associated with the Greek goddess Athena, and often depicted with her. Her original role as a goddess of the night might explain the link to an owl. [4]
Snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus (A) Burrowing owl, Athene cunicularia (A) Barred owl, Strix varia; ... In size they range from 8 cm (3.1 in) to 1 m (3.3 ft) in length ...
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 ...