Forget looking up in the trees to find these guys. They are burrowing owls, which means that they live on the ground or under it. In fact, they often take advantage of the hard work of tunnelers such as prairie dogs or gophers by building their nests in the burrows they dug and abandoned. Think of burrowing owls as squatters of the avian world. You"ll find these 7½- to 11-inch birds in North and South America, especially in grasslands, farming areas, or dry expanses with vegetation that is close to the ground.
Burrowing owls
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Pride Month
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Its Halfway Day!
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Paris is photo-ready this week
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Independence Day of the Argentine Republic
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Pining for spring
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Behold the perfect cone
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Easter
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Procida, Italy
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A fair that s star-studded
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The Alhambra in Granada, Spain
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The glass dome of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, Italy
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Black bear cub emerging into spring
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Montreux, Switzerland, and all that jazz
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Autumn in Piedmont
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Blue-throated toucanet, Los Quetzales National Park, Costa Rica
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Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn, New York
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Sweetheart Abbey, Scotland
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World Bee Day
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Glenfinnan Viaduct
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Green sea turtle on World Oceans Day
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Methow Valley, North Cascades, Washington
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