Burrowing Owl
Found by Eve Freeberg NW of Grand Forks on April 11, 2006. This is the first county record in
about 20 years when a pair was present much of the summer on Oakville Prairie
where they once likely nested. It is interesting to note that the 2006 record
occurred at the time of a big flood along the Red. A Burrowing Owl was found in
the Grand Forks Memorial Park Cemetery on May 3, 1979, at the time of another
major flood. Burrowing Owls have become increasingly scarce this far east
because of contraction of its range on the Northern Great Plains, and
because it is no longer being found in a number of sites where the habitat seems
suitable. Image by Eve Freeberg.
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