Burrowing owl video

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This video from the USA is about:

the action when a potential predator is spotted by these burrowing owls. The young run for shelter, while the parents take up guarding the entrance to the burrow.

Burrowing owls evicted: here. And here.

Burrowing owls can thrive amid agricultural development and urbanization—so why are they imperiled? See here.

October 2010: A Florida burrowing owl was just hours away from becoming a cruise ship stowaway. Just before Royal Caribbean International’s Oasis of the Seas was to depart Port Everglades for the tropics, the owl was discovered on the ship’s mini-golf course, on the upper deck: here.

Little owl photos: here.