Burrowing owls are small, ground-nesting owls common in the West. They weigh between 4 and 5 ounces and are about 7½ to 10 inches in height with long, sparsely feathered legs. Their small round heads lack ear tufts and they have a light brown back with numerous white speckles and a white underbelly with horizontal brown stripes.

of 3-8-06 it was -- burrowing owls live 5-10 years, so it may be there a while, since we have seen it for a year now.

PNM works closely with Hawks Aloft on a number of projects, including support for their Cavity Nesting Birds education program. PNM installed a web cam at Reeves Generating Station to help Hawks Aloft teach area students about the habits of burrowing owls in the wild.

Restrict the use of pesticides. Owls eat the insects we consider pests, and are therefore exposed to the insecticides we use around our homes. Pesticides limit and contaminate the food sources available to the owls. Starter burrows. Attracting burrowing owls to our developed properties and integrating them into our community will help ensure their survival. Call 574-0552 for more information, or see our brochure, CAPE CORAL'S BURROWING OWLS-YOU CAN HELP for details.

Burrowing owls hunt for prey, care for their young, maintain their burrows, sleep and watch for potential predators.

Yes, just before she went to the Crimean War she had a pet baby owl called Athena who travelled in her pocket. Yes, but only during the war. She ruled her nurses with iron discipline - even locking them up at night! She was doing it to prove to middle-class parents back home that tough discipline and strong female leadership could protect their daughters against sexual harassment.

The western species is found from Canada to Mexico, as far east as Texas and Louisiana and as far west as California. In some states the burrowing owl is on the endangered species list.

Call the City of Cape Coral Division of Growth and Land Management at 574-0552 or C.R.O.W. (Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife) at 472-3644

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Their main diet consists of insects, anoles (lizards) frogs and mice. They obtain water from the food they eat. Please do not attempt to feed them. and display their wings to dissuade you from getting any closer. The city has never received any reports of injury to humans or pets from owls.

Burrowing owls migrate during the winter but are found in New Mexico all year. They like dry grasslands and move into underground burrows, often previously dug by other animals.

Burrowing owls are opportunistic, and feed on insects, small mammals, small birds and small lizards. They capture prey with their talons and also catch small insects while flying.

Burrows provide a safe havens from other animals that hunt them and from the weather. Unfortunately, burrows are often disturbed by people and domestic dogs and cats. In places without suitable burrows, artificial burrows in the form of nest boxes may be used.

No. Owls are wild animals and wild animals do not make good pets. Not only is it against the law to keep a native or migratory wild animal in your possession, it is also extremely difficult to give a wild creature the freedom, space and proper nutrition necessary for its survival. For their sake, and yours, wild animals should always live in the wild.

Florida's burrowing owls are listed as a species of special concern by the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. There are three levels of protection: species of special concern, threatened and endangered. Species of special concern are those facing a moderate risk of extinction in the future. A threatened species is one facing a very high risk of extinction in the future. Endangered species are in imminent danger of extinction due to man-made or natural factors.

To discourage woodchucks from taking up residence in your yard, or to encourage burrow abandonment, remove undergrowth and brush from around houses or buildings that they have burrowed under.

Burrowing owls are active day and night, and may be seen outside their burrows any time. In New Mexico, burrowing owls lay three to 10 eggs in the early spring. The eggs hatch about a month later. Young burrowing owls may be observed from Mid-April to the end of August.

If you are not in the Washington, D.C. area, contact the National Forest nearest you at http://www.fs.fed.us/links/forests.html or call (202) 205-4995 during normal office hours. In the Washington, D.C. area, fax your request letter to (202) 690-5658 or mail it with at least three weeks' advance notice to USDA Forest Service, Attn: Conservation Education, PO Box 96090, Washington, DC 20090-6090.

Around 1960 I came across a book (name and publisher long forgotten), where the writer used the appearance of the Owl/Eye symbol on rocks and pottery to trace an early Neolithic group spreading out by the coastal route from the Mediterranean up the coast of Europe, Ireland, Scotland and Denmark. In 1966, Thames and Hudson published a book by T.G.E. Powell called 'Prehistoric Art', where the 'Ocular' motives were noted, illustrated and its suggested origin to be in the Mediterranean.

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