Burrowing Owl
Athene cunicularia

f6.3 @ 1/5000s, ISO:1250, Nikon D3S w 500mm

"Burrowing Owl," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Burrowing owls range from the southern portions of the western Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) and all the way through Mexico to western PanamÃ¡. They are also found across the state of Florida, as well as some Caribbean islands. In South America, they are fairly common, and are known to inhabit every country on the continent, with the exception of the dense Amazon rainforest interior and the highest ranges of the Andes Mountains. Their preference is for the cooler, possibly sub-tropical coastal and temperate regions. South of the Amazon, their population seems to again rebound, as they are widely distributed from southern Brazil and the Pantanal down to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.

Cape Coral, Florida

04/16/2015