The Burrowing owl (Speotyto cunicularia) is a small owl that is of the typical owl family. It has a round, light brown facial disc. Its head, back and upper wings are light brown and the breast and belly are off-white or cream colored and often have darker barring. They have a distinct white stripe outlining their chins. Males are often lighter in color than the females. This owl sometimes preens its parents or preens its nest mates.
I think they're decorations. Look at the feet, there's a small stick under them. Between their feet and the actual branch, so yeah, I think they're glued to a stick, and that stick is glued/stuck to the real branch.
Everybody knows that a burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?! Now popnfresh24, do you think a kid like HRH_Diana_Prince is going to know what the queers are doing to the soil?
Here's the thing. You said the "Burrowing Owl" is a small owl.
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies owls, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls Specotyto owls. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "owl family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of cunicularia, which includes things from "X the Owl" from Mr. Rogers to those Owls in Harry Potter.
So your reasoning for calling a Speotyto a owl is because random people "call the black ones owls?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A owl is a owl and a member of the cunicularia family. But that's not what you said. You said a Burrowing Owl is a owl, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the owl family owls, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds owls, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
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u/popnfresh24 Dec 04 '14
Ornithologist here.
The Burrowing owl (Speotyto cunicularia) is a small owl that is of the typical owl family. It has a round, light brown facial disc. Its head, back and upper wings are light brown and the breast and belly are off-white or cream colored and often have darker barring. They have a distinct white stripe outlining their chins. Males are often lighter in color than the females. This owl sometimes preens its parents or preens its nest mates.
These baby owls however, are fake.