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A burrowing owl makes a home out of a buried piece of pipe. A. c. floridana by its burrow in Florida. The burrowing owl is endangered in Canada [30] and threatened in Mexico. It is a state threatened species in Colorado and Florida [31] and a California species of special concern.
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 ...
California wildlife policymakers voted to consider listing the Western burrowing owl under the state Endangered Species Act amid rapid population declines.
Athene cunicularia arubensis, also known as the Aruban burrowing owl or shoco, is an endemic subspecies of burrowing owl in Aruba. Since 2015, the shoco has become a national symbol of Aruba. [ 1 ]
Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) Owls possess large, forward-facing eyes and ear-holes, a hawk-like beak, a flat face, and usually a conspicuous circle of feathers, a facial disc, around each eye. The feathers making up this disc can be adjusted to sharply focus sounds from varying distances onto the owls' asymmetrically placed ear cavities.
Open grasslands are shrinking where the tiny burrowing owl makes its home nesting in underground burrows. Where it was once plentiful, the Burrowing Owl’s numbers have plummeted in Florida.
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.
The supposed species "Athene" murivora was the name given to subfossil bones of male Rodrigues scops owls. Antiguan burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia amaura)—extinct (c. 1905) Guadeloupe burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia guadeloupensis)—extinct (c. 1890)