Look at it just daring you to molest it lol
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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He's totally judging.
"Hey, buddy. Yeah you.Look at the sign. This means you"
The owl’s name is Karen.
It would like to speak to the manager. The sign makes her look fat.
He needs a little cowboy hat :)
Thank you!
I do what I can!
Remember - do not fuck the owls or their nests, no matter how sexy they are.
*squints, surreptitiously scribbles in notebook*
life imitates art
He's got Federowl Immunity, bud.
I'm thrown off a bit by the ribbons on the post, they seem a bit random and suspended to nothing. It makes its lol a bit ai-ish as it doesn't make irl sense.
Burrowing owls are so damned cute.
Getting real Looney Toons vibes here…
“Get outta here Chester…”
Near Jamul, CA., a suburb of San Diego.
I've been here, it's run by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Association. Super cute, too bad they have like a 90% mortality rate in their first year.
Nice! I want to see some wild ones when I go to Florida later this year.
I did find some info on some of the work the San Diego Zoo is doing with our little subterranean friends here.
Didn't see a specific rate listed for California, but ORI says 20-30% survive the first year, though this paper from the Center For Biodiversity says the population of Burrowing Owls in CA has been especially hard guy, largest by development over recent years, so it may indeed be lower.
Remember that the Western Burrowing Owls are quite different than their Eastern Counterparts.
Speaking from secondhand knowledge, I am told that the SD Zoo breeding program of the Western Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) that runs from Feb. thru August has had several setbacks in recent years due to Hawks, Snakes, Coyotes and Human Activity once released. In one recent example that I helped out with, they released 20 individual young adults and only two survived the first 48 hours.
https://www.experiencewildlife.com/saving-the-san-diego-burrowing-owl
However, SD Zoo breeding program has been working with several associates (including the myfwc Florida Fish and Wildlife) regarding the Eastern Burrowing Owl subspecies whose breeding runs from March thru August that has reported recent successes at reintroducing the species into North Dakota down to western Florida.
The Burrowing Owl Program was featured on The Zoo: San Diego show in 2019, I just don't remember which episode. Further, the program is often highlighted on the San Diego Zoo Youtube and Facebook pages.
Those are some very neat details! I'm glad to run into someone here that has some better info than I do!
I'm nowhere near any Burrowing Owls where I'm at, but I've seen a few different things I've shared here about some unique eye features of some of them in Florida and Aruba's subspecies, the Shoco.
That would be so heartbreaking to lose so many in 2 days after all that work! 😦
Thank you so much for sharing!
Oh no, he looks just like that Molesting Owl on the sign!
That is some interesting capitalization they chose... 🤔
I was just minding my own business when suddenly a molesting owl just totally ruined my day.
Title case is for when you want to get artistic with things. Do you capitalize their? Maybe, maybe not.
their should definitely be capitalized. Only articles and prepositions up to 4 letters should not be capitalized, their meets neither of these criteria. is is also miscapitalized.
I feel some rules of grammar have changed since I was in school, which I find both cool and annoying at the same time. We've had English a long enough time one would think all this would be well ironed out by now, but it's also exciting a bit that the language isn't stagnant. At the same time, it also probably makes me look s but ignorant since I am likely unaware of a decent number of changes. 😅
The real rules center around major and minor words. Specifics are down to individual manuals of style. And what are major and minor words you ask? Check your manual of style.
I would have gone with "That" if it were me.
Protected Bird Site is the title though.
Maybe Burrowing Owl Nesting Area could be called a subtitle.
But the rest is no longer a title!
Even that fine print on the bottom looks to go back to title case again.
That's too much title!