Burrowing Owl

Taxonomy

Order

Strigiformes

Family

Strigidae

Genus

Athene

eBird Code

burowl

Subspecies (18)

• Athene cunicularia amaura

  formerly Nevis and Antigua (West Indies); extinct

• Athene cunicularia boliviana

  Bolivia

• Athene cunicularia brachyptera

  Aruba, northern Venezuela (southward to the llanos of Apure, Barinas, and Cojedes) including Isla Margarita, and adjacent northeastern Colombia

• Athene cunicularia carrikeri

  eastern Colombia

• Athene cunicularia cunicularia

  southern Bolivia and southern Brazil to Paraguay and Tierra del Fuego

• Athene cunicularia floridana

  prairies of central and southern Florida, Bahamas, and Cuba including Isla de la Juventud

• Athene cunicularia grallaria

  eastern Brazil (Maranhão to Mato Grosso and Paraná)

• Athene cunicularia guadeloupensis

  formerly Guadeloupe (central Lesser Antilles); extinct

• Athene cunicularia guantanamensis

  coastal northern Cuba (Guantánamo Province)

• Athene cunicularia hypugaea

  southwestern Canada to El Salvador

• Athene cunicularia juninensis

  Andes of central Peru (Junín) to western Bolivia and northwestern Argentina

• Athene cunicularia minor

  southern Guyana and adjacent far northern Brazil (Roraima)

• Athene cunicularia nanodes

  coastal slope of western South American (southwestern Ecuador to northern Chile)

• Athene cunicularia partridgei

  northern Argentina (Corrientes Province)

• Athene cunicularia pichinchae

  western Ecuador (except for arid littoral)

• Athene cunicularia rostrata

  Clarion Island (Revillagigedo Islands off western Mexico)

• Athene cunicularia tolimae

  western Colombia (Tolima)

• Athene cunicularia troglodytes

  Hispaniola including Gonâve and Beata islands