Image: Dave Rintoul.
Can you identify which owl species this is, dear readers?
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I think it's a burrowing owl. Knowing where it was taken would be helpful tho'.
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It's a burrowing owl. Doug Levey and his crew down at UFlorida recently published a great natural history story in Nature about these beasties. They nest in the ground looking like feathered meercats, and place animal droppings near their entrance. Turns out their seeding their front yard with bait for dung beetles, a crunchy treat that B-owls love to eat.
"You can go out there and see these owls standing in front of their burrows and it looks like they're not doing anything," Levey said. "But I think it's pretty clear that they've got that old line in that water, fishing for these beetles." Levey said in a UFlorida press release.
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