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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.
The barred owl (Strix varia), also known as the northern barred owl, striped owl or, more informally, hoot owl or eight-hooter owl, is a North American large species of owl. A member of the true owl family, Strigidae, they belong to the genus Strix , which is also the origin of the family's name under Linnaean taxonomy .
Burrowing owl: Athene cunicularia (Molina, 1782) 71 Little owl: Athene noctua (Scopoli, 1769) 72 ... Northern white-faced owl: Ptilopsis leucotis (Temminck, 1820) 168
The barred owl, common in the Eastern U.S., is not native to the West Coast. It most likely arrived only because European settlers spread west. The species was first discovered in spotted owl ...
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. ... Rare snow blankets Sahara dunes in Northern Africa ...
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 ...
Western screech-owl, Megascops kennicottii; Eastern screech-owl, Megascops asio; Great horned owl, Bubo virginianus; Snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus; Northern hawk owl, Surnia ulula (A) Northern pygmy-owl, Glaucidium gnoma; Burrowing owl, Athene cunicularia; Barred owl, Strix varia (A) Great gray owl, Strix nebulosa; Long-eared owl, Asio otus
Advocates say the decline of the burrowing owl in California has accelerated. They want the state to add the bird to the endangered or threatened list.