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3 pages in length. The writer discusses identification, habitat, population and endangered status as they relate to the western burrowing owl. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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With at least eighteen recognized subspecies as of 1993, the western burrowing owl has a habitat range from North to Central America, from the Great Plains to Panama and
Florida to the Bahama Islands (Brown, 1996). When the student discusses such issues as habitat and population, it will be important to offer a bit of physical background on the
species in order to underscore the critical nature of its current threatened status. The western burrowing owl, named for its ground-dwelling lifestyle, sports a multicolored appearance of white, yellow,
cream and sandy hues. There are no feathers on its head, yet what are termed tufts sit atop each ear to give it a feathery look. Atypical of
standard owl measurements, the male western burrowing owl is a bit bigger in stature than its female counterpart, while the females balance out the size differences by being darker in
color (Brown, 1996). Western burrowing owls make their homes in vast and various locales, from desert to dry grassland to agricultural/range lands to habitats of pinion and ponderosa pine.
Their range of habitat is quite broad, as well, spanning from as low as two hundred feet below sea level to as high as nine thousand feet. Even though
the western burrowing owl is a ground dweller, it does perch atop relatively short landing places, such as dirt mounds or fence posts. The blatant impact of mans encroachment
often manifests in seeing an abundance of western burrowing owls "at the margins of airports and golf courses and in vacant urban lots" (Brown, 1996). Western burrowing owls typically start
to build their nests in April, fortifying them with myriad types of dry matter upon which their average number of seven to nine eggs are laid. The female holds
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