Chevêche of the burrows

The chevêche of the burrows or owl of the burrows is an owl with the long legs adapted to the life in the meadows of North America and the southern. She lives for example the meadows of the Saskatchewan and the Alberta to the Canada, where she is threatened. She abounds however in the néotropis, where one meets it even in urban environments, typically in the parks where in the neighborhoods of the cities.

Description

This Chevêche has a gray-brown plumage piqueté of white on the top, striped of white on the belly, its color enables him to be dissimulated when it is on the ground. The male and the female are similar, but the young people have the throat of color chamois-rust

Its round head is close to that of the Hibou X, its eyes and its Bec is yellow. The chevêche of the burrows is especially characterized by the length of its legs in comparison with the body; the tail is, on the other hand, rather short. It measures approximately 24 cm of the head to the tail, weighs between 125 and 175 grams and can live from 3 to 4 years.

Cry

The chevêche of the burrows is rather quiet, however it has several cries:
  • a “chatter” of warning
  • territorial a “coo-cooo”, emitted by the males to attract the females
  • a whistle which it emits when it is threatened (imitation of the Rattlesnake)

Food

The chevêche of the burrows is carnivorous, it nourishes Sauterelle S, of cricket S, Coléoptère S, Souris, or of Oiseau X.

Reproduction

She saw in burrows with bottom the ground

Predatory

Its predator is the crotale

Surface of distribution

Subspecies

  • Athene cunicularia will amaura (Lawrence, 1878) - Extinct
  • Athene cunicularia apurensis (Gilliard, 1940)
  • Athene cunicularia arubensis (Cory, 1915)
  • Athene cunicularia boliviana (Kelso, 1939)
  • Athene cunicularia will brachyptera (Richmond, 1896)
  • Athene cunicularia carrikeri (Stone, 1922)
  • Athene cunicularia cunicularia (Molina, 1872)
  • Athene cunicularia floridana (Ridgway, 1874)
  • Athene cunicularia grallaria (Temminck, 1822)
  • Athene cunicularia guadeloupensis (Ridgway, 1874) - Guadeloupe.
  • Athene cunicularia guantanamensis (Garrido, 2001)
  • Athene cunicularia hypugaea (Bonaparte, 1825)
  • Athene cunicularia intermedia (Cory, 1915)
  • Athene cunicularia juninensis (Berlepsch and Stolzmann, 1902)
  • Athene cunicularia minor (Cory, 1918)
  • Athene cunicularia nanodes (Berlepsch and Stolzmann, 1892)
  • Athene cunicularia partridgei Olrog, 1976
  • Athene cunicularia pichinchae (Boetticher, 1929)
  • Athene cunicularia providentiae - the Bahamas (extinct).
  • Athene cunicularia punensis (Chapman, 1914)
  • Athene cunicularia rostrata (C. Townsend, 1890)
  • Athene cunicularia tolimae (Stone, 1899)
  • Athene cunicularia troglodytes (Wetmore and Swales, 1931)

Protection

Sources

  • Fauna and flora of the country
  • the VerteMC Way of the Area of the Meadows and North
  • Species in danger

External bonds

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