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Title
Burrowing Owl With Cricket
Artist
Judi Dressler
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This Burrowing Owl is a mom with nine babies in a nest, and she's bringing the cricket to feed them. She is extremely busy with so many hungry mouths to feed, and is constantly flying in with crickets, grasshoppers, and much less frequently, a mouse or frog. Typically, the dad will bring in the larger prey, but I did not see him on the morning this picture was taken.
Burrowing owls are born underground in burrows, often these are burrows built by prairie dogs. They hunt crickets, grasshoppers, and other bugs, as well as small mammals such as mice, and small reptiles. They are excellent parents, bringing food to their babies until the young ones are hunting bugs for themselves, and even afterwards for a while.
The adults have stripes across their chests; the babies start getting these stripes as they get a little older. Baby burrowing owls can be very entertaining to watch as they run and jump and play with each other!
Photo taken on June 30, 2021, in the Colorado Grasslands
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Descriptive keywords and tags for this image include burrowing owls, owls, burrowing owl with cricket, cricket, prey, bug, flowers, big eyes, yellow eyes, grasslands, colorado, athene cunicularia, strigiformes, wildlife, strigidae, striginae, raptor, bird of prey, cunicularia, judi dressler, and dressler.
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July 19th, 2021
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