Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) [XC795326]
by Alvaro Riccetto from Ridgecrest, Kern County, California, United States (call, coo coo call)
Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) [XC734446]
by Guillermo Men\u00e9ndez (gmmv80) from Taquaral de Goi\u00e1s, Taquaral de Goi\u00e1s, Goi\u00e1s, Brazil (call)
Subspecies
Some of the subspecies described could reflect merely individual variation or intergrading populations, and thus probably not acceptable. Subspecific taxa and delimitations require critical re-evaluation with modern systematic methods, although some certainly appear distinct. Lesser Antilles subspecies amaura and guadeloupensis extinct.
The following 22 subspecies are recognised:
hypugaea (Bonaparte, 1825) - From southern Canada, west of eastern edge of Great Plains, south to El Salvador.
rostrata (Townsend, CH, 1890) - Clarión I in Revillagigedo Is (off western Mexico).
floridana (Ridgway, 1874) - Florida (also, marginally, Georgia) and Bahamas. Also (possibly this subspecies) Cuba and I of Pines.
troglodytes (Wetmore & Swales, 1931) - Hispaniola, including Gonâve I and Beata I.