🦉Burrowing Owl
A Athene cunicularia ou Speotyto cunicularia, habitualmente conhecida como coruja-buraqueira ou simplesmente buraqueira, é uma ave de rapina americana, da família dos Estrigídeos. É uma coruja terrícola e de hábitos diurnos, embora tende a evitar o calor do meio-dia. Ocorre do Canadá à Terra do Fogo, bem como em quase todo o Brasil, mas com a exceção da Amazônia. Tais aves chegam a medir até 27 centímetros de comprimento. Vivem, no mínimo, nove anos em habitat selvagem e dez em cativeiro. Coloca geralmente de seis a doze ovos. Costumam viver em campos, pastos, restingas, desertos, planícies, praias e aeroportos. Os predadores documentados dessa coruja incluem texugos, serpentes e doninhas.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- 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
Everything we know about the Burrowing Owl
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.15 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.15 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.18 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.02 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.04 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan11 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Gestation28 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 8AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatGrasslandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleGeneralistAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.2 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderStrigiformes
- ›familyStrigidae
- ›genusAthene
- ›speciesAthene cunicularia
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderOwls · Strigiformes
- familyStrigidae
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderOwls · Strigiformes
- familyStrigidae
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