How to Use burrowing owl in a Sentence

burrowing owl

noun

• This also will become the home for the screech owls, barn owls and burrowing owls.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 12 Mar. 2018
• The burrowing owl lives its life the opposite of most owls.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
• Researchers say at least 225 of them are killed each year by burrowing owls.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
• In November, the Audubon will be launching yet another beer and bird combo that will focus on the burrowing owl.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
• Worst of all, the mice attract burrowing owls, which feed on the rodents until their population crashes in the winter.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
• As far as wild animals go, the western burrowing owl is a tolerant neighbor to humans.
  — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• Still, burrowing owls are in a unique position to survive, and even thrive, in urban environments.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 24 Mar. 2020
• Andrew Lee snapped this fortuitous shot of a burrowing owl mother and her owlets peering in the same direction in Ontario, Canada.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
• The mitigation lands are now reverting back to habitat for San Joaquin kit foxes, blunt-nosed leopard lizards, burrowing owls and other at-risk species.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2019
• The Ramona grasslands are the second site in San Diego County slated for burrowing owl reintroduction.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2021
• The explosive growth in mice, which first landed on the islands during the California Gold Rush, has attracted burrowing owls, who not only eat the mice but also prey upon the storm-petrels.
  — Rosanna Xia, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
• Fish and Wildlife Service staffers also plan to be present on the island to remove mouse carcasses before scavengers and raptors like burrowing owls have a chance to feed on them and indirectly imbibe the poison.
  — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
• Songbirds, limpkins and woodpeckers are also noisily making sure they are heard, while burrowing owls are popping up in open pastures.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
• The four zones are: Desert: Just beyond the entrance will be a dung beetle globe fountain, rope climb and an animal care facility adjacent to an exhibit featuring prairie dogs, burrowing owls and fennec foxes.
  — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Eventually the Antiguan Department of Environment hopes to reintroduce burrowing owls to the island.
  — Geoffrey Giller, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2018
• To further support this illusion, an outdoor speaker was set up at these sites to periodically play burrowing owl calls during the week before the animals were released from their acclimation enclosures, and during the following week.
  — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• Presentations will include a display of falcons and hawks by master falconer Cisco Clibourne, a seminar on the migration of Swainson’s hawks through Borrego, the natural history of roadrunners, hummingbirds, and burrowing owls.
  — Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Others, including imperiled Eastern indigo snakes and burrowing owls, rely on tortoise accommodations to escape fire, cold and predation.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Commission staff recommended that the project be reduced to about 20 acres outside of areas identified as environmentally sensitive habitat, particularly for burrowing owls.
  — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 15 Dec. 2017
• Every simple fact, from the burrowing owl’s strikingly persuasive imitation of a rattlesnake’s warning to Darlington’s own lavish curiosity, requires no supporting argument.
  — Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024