(Athene cunicularia) [XC598135]
by Gregory Askew from General Roca, General Roca, R\u00edo Negro, Argentina (dawn song)
Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) [XC535647]
by Cristian Pinto from Privanzas Los Mochis Ahome, Sinaloa, Mexico (song)
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.