AnimalvsAnimal
Western burrowing owl, Glenn County 0550🦉

Photo: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesStrigiformesStrigidae
Birds

🦉Burrowing Owl

Athene cunicularia (Molina, 1782)

De holenuil of konijnuil (Athene cunicularia, in de vorige eeuw ook wel Speotyto cunicularia) is een lid van de familie van de uilen.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
8
Photos
5
Measurements
12
vs you
≈ 1/410th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.15 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
11 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Burrowing Owl

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.15 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.15 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.08 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.18 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.04 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
11 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
28 days
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 8
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Grassland
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Generalist
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Burrowing Owl yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderStrigiformes
  5. ›familyStrigidae
  6. ›genusAthene
  7. ›speciesAthene cunicularia
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderOwls · Strigiformes
  4. familyStrigidae
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderOwls · Strigiformes
  11. familyStrigidae
More

More about the Burrowing Owl

In other languages
Pójdźka ziemna (pl), 가시올빼미 (ko), Chevêche des terriers (fr), Athene cunicularia (es), üregi bagoly (hu), Athene cunicularia (it) … and 24 more languages
More photos
Western burrowing owl, Glenn County 0550i i (3042813244)060401 burrowing owl a IB Flickr Lip Kee
All 5 photos in the gallery →

Dieren voor de camera

Echte beelden van de dieren op deze site — hoe ze jagen, vechten en gewoon hun eigen gang gaan.

Bekijk alle 8 video's →
Tools

Compare the Burrowing Owl

Pick a tool — the Burrowing Owl is already selected.

Side by side

Compare every stat with any other animal.

994 animals to compareOpen →
Who's bigger?

Stand them on the same floor and see who's bigger.

637th heaviest of 780Open →
Scaling lab

How speed, brain and bite scale with body size. This animal isn't in the sample yet.

Not in the sampleOpen →
Tree of life

See where it sits in the tree of life.

11 branchesOpen →