Talk:Burrowing owl

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The article doesnt have the total population on it. I can't find it anywhere on the web and i was hoping to find it here. i.am.me. 1:13 pm May 3, 2007

The page did not have one before, however I am not entirely clear how the taxonomy works, so I'd appreciate someone cleaning it up. --zandperl 02:19, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

there used to be a taxobox in there. I reverted to an older version that deleted practically everything that wasn't text. Circeus 02:29, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

There's some content that was deleted as well, so I threw some back in. Plus some of the content that was in the old version was lifted directly from one of the sources, so I tried to clean that up some, and threw in the picture I'd found. --zandperl 12:53, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Harry Potter

Ron's owl pidwigin is a scops owl, and not a burrowing owl —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tytycoon (talk • contribs) 19:23, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Name as proper noun?

Hello all- I find the use of proper case for the owl's name in the body text of this article quite distracting. I could see using it in the title, but it jumps out as bizarre in the body text. I know this is a controversial topic on Wikipedia, so I haven't changed any instances of the name to sentence case, but I wanted to float the idea here. Eric ^talk 12:28, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

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Dung etc

Haven't you done the dung bit twice? Macdonald-ross (talk) 13:51, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Introductory Paragraph Burrowing Behaviour

The opening paragraph states "They nest and roost in burrows, and, despite their common name, do not construct these dwellings themselves", while later on in the article it is stated that they can excavate their own burrows under ideal conditions if no other burrows are present. Therefore I think it would be ideal for the text to say "They nest and roost in burrows, and, despite their common name, do not often construct these dwellings themselves" Aanth121 (talk) 18:47, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

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The burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) is a small, long-legged owl in the family Strigidae. It is native to the open landscapes of North and South America, where it inhabits grasslands, rangelands, agricultural areas, deserts, and other open habitats with low vegetation, nesting and roosting in burrows usually excavated by other animals. When threatened, it retreats underground and produces rattling and hissing sounds resembling those of a rattlesnake, an example of acoustic Batesian mimicry. This southern burrowing owl (subspecies A. c. cunicularia) was photographed near Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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