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Western burrowing owl, Glenn County 0550🦉

Photo: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesStrigiformesStrigidae
Birds

🦉Burrowing Owl

Athene cunicularia (Molina, 1782)

穴小鴞（學名：Athene cunicularia）為鴟鴞科小鴞屬的一種，因住在洞穴而得名。主要分布於北美洲及南美洲地區。常見於草原、牧地、農業地區、荒漠，或者低植被的乾燥區域。有別於其他種貓頭鷹僅活動於夜間，穴小鴞於日間依舊能照常活動，亦因此，其狩獵時間自黃昏即已開始。

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
11 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
28 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 8
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
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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.

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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
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderOwls · Strigiformes
  11. familyStrigidae
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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
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