Burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia)🦉are found throughout the Americas wherever vegetation is low, and soil permits burrows.
They're prevalent in the mountain states of Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, especially in areas where prairie dogs create convenient burrows.
(Pic: Mac Stone)
I’m not proud of this but in the Air Force it gets boring on Alert. You basically live with your aircraft. To pass time at Minot ND we discovered if you chase a PD into it hole. It quickly pops up again! 💡I grabbed some cotton string looped a slip knot into and put around the opening. I caught 100%
