artificial burrow for western burrowing owl

Two people place a western burrowing owl in an artificial burrow

Photo By/Credit

Date Shot/Created

01/11/2022

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Image

Amanda Schwark, a Texas Sealife Center volunteer, and Mary Kay Skoruppa, a wildlife biologist with the Service’s Texas Coastal Ecological Services Field Office, gently place a rehabilitated Western burrowing owl inside an artificial burrow created for the species. Image by Aubry Buzek/USFWS

Facility

Texas Coastal and Central Plains Ecological Services Field Office

Species

Athene cunicularia hypugaea

Subject tags

Wildlife

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