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Title
Two Bands On Each
Artist
Norman Johnson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This burrowing owl has been banded four times in Cape Coral, Florida.
Burrowing owls (athene cunicularia) can be found in the open landscapes of prairies, desert, grassland, pastures, airports, public parks, and playgrounds of the Americas from western Canada, the United States, including Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America down to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego in Argentina. They live in underground burrows that they've dug or taken over from a prairie dog, ground squirrel, tortoise, gopher, or gopher turtle.
A small long greyish legged owl, they have a short tail, and a rounded head with bright yellow eyes, white eyebrows, and no ear tufts. They are brown with mottled sandy-pale spots. The breast is buff spotted with brown and the belly is buff with dark brown bars. The have a white/buff throat. They measure from 7.5" to 9.8" in length with a wingspan of about 21.7." The hooked beak is dark yellow or grey. Juveniles are less mottled than adults with a buff belly.
Burrowing owls feed mainly on insects and rodents but eat almost anything small that they can catch. They hunt close to the ground from dusk til dawn, during the day. They are most active at dusk and dawn and tend to rest during the middle of the day. They can usually be seen on fence posts, or other vantage points near their burrows. They can often be seen on the ground.
They often carpet the entrance to their burrows with animal dung to attract dung beetles and other insects to eat. To make sure that their nestlings have enough to eat, they often cache extra food in times of plenty. One cache in Saskatchewan in 1997 was filled with more than 200 rodents. When they bob up and down its an indication that they are nervous.
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June 13th, 2019
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Naples, FL - United States
Congratulations Norman, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings" I invite you to place it in the group's "2019 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Norman Johnson replied:
I'm really glad you like it Don. Thank you very much for the feature in the group "A Birding Group - Wings."
Naples, FL - United States
Congratulations Norman, your work is Featured in "Birds In Focus" I invite you to place it in the group's "2019 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Norman Johnson replied:
I'm really glad you like it Don. Thank you very much for the feature in the group "Birds In Focus."
Riverview, FL - United States
I'm really glad you like it John. Thank you very much for the feature in the group "Images That Excite You."
Stuart, FL - United States
Gosh, why would they need to band it four times!? That's a bit of overkill there. Great find and shot though, Norman. Thank you for submitting this fine shot and correctly named bird to Wild Birds Of The World - A Nature Photography Group, where it is now featured on the home page. L/F
Norman Johnson replied:
I'm really glad you like it William. Thank you for the feature in the group "Wild Birds Of The World - A Nature Photography Group."
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