The Burrowing Owl is small ground-dwelling diurnal owl with several distinctive features including its bright yellow eyes long legs and characteristic bobbing behavior when disturbed. Web As opposed to the Florida Burrowing Owl that may dig their own burrows Western Burrowing owls rely on the abandoned burrows of mammals like ground squirrels prairie dogs badgers. Owls are unmistakable birds and that goes double for a long-legged owl that hunts on the ground during the day. . Web They live in grasslands deserts and other open habitats where they hunt mainly insects and rodents Their numbers have declined sharply with human alteration of their habitat and the decline of prairie..
Natural History
The Burrowing Owl is small ground-dwelling diurnal owl with several distinctive features including its bright yellow eyes long legs and characteristic bobbing behavior when disturbed. Web As opposed to the Florida Burrowing Owl that may dig their own burrows Western Burrowing owls rely on the abandoned burrows of mammals like ground squirrels prairie dogs badgers. Owls are unmistakable birds and that goes double for a long-legged owl that hunts on the ground during the day. . Web They live in grasslands deserts and other open habitats where they hunt mainly insects and rodents Their numbers have declined sharply with human alteration of their habitat and the decline of prairie..
Stanford Conservation Program Stanford University
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