• Index
• Site Updates
• My Photo Blog
• Articles
• Avian Galleries
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Assorted Grebes & Loons
  • Neotropic Cormorant
  • Am White Pelican
  • Bitterns
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Snowy Egret
  • Green Heron
  • B.C. Night-Heron
  • White-faced Ibis
  • Wood Stork
  • B.B. Whistling-Duck
  • Canada Goose
  • Mallard
  • Northern Pintail
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • American Wigeon
  • Redhead
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Ruddy Duck
  • Assorted Ducks
  • American Kestrel
  • Assorted Hawks
  • Gambel's Quail
  • Sora
  • American Coot
  • Common Moorhen
  • Killdeer
  • Black-necked Stilt
  • American Avocet
  • Northern Jacana
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Least Sandpiper
  • L.B. Dowitcher
  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Assorted Shorebirds
  • Franklin's Gull
  • White-winged Dove
  • Mourning Dove
  • Inca Dove
  • Peach-faced Lovebird
  • Greater Roadrunner
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Assorted Owls
  • Lesser Nighthawk
  • Anna's Hummingbird
  • Costa's Hummingbird
  • Other Hummingbirds
  • Gila Woodpecker
  • L.B. Woodpecker
  • Gilded Flicker
  • Empidonax Flycatcher
  • Black Phoebe
  • Say's Phoebe
  • Vermilion Flycatcher
  • Other Flycatchers
  • N.RW Swallow
  • Verdin
  • Kinglet & Gnatcatcher
  • Cactus Wren
  • Northern Mockingbird
  • Curved-billed Thrasher
  • Assorted Thrushes
  • American Pipit
  • Phainopepla
  • Cedar Waxwing
  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • European Starling
  • Bell's Vireo
  • Lucy's Warbler
  • Northern Parula
  • Orange-crowned Warbler
  • Yellow-rumped Warber
  • Assorted Warblers
  • Cardinal & Pyrrhuloxia
  • Abert's Towhee
  • Black-throated Sparrow
  • Song Sparrow
  • White-crowned Sparrow
  • Assorted Sparrows
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Great-tailed Grackle
  • Cowbirds
  • Streak-backed Oriole
  • House Finch
  • Lesser Goldfinch
  • Assorted Finches
  • House Sparrow
• Vanity Plate Galleries
• Photographer Galleries
• Rarities
• Mammals 1
• Mammals 2

Burrowing Owl

Athene cunicularia

- small owl with long legs; lives under ground in old ground squirrel dens

- widespread in western North America; limited to southern Florida in eastern U.S.

- all images made at various AZ locations