"The Hawk Owl is strictly diurnal, as much so as any of the Hawks, and like some of them often selects a tall shrub or dead-topped tree in a comparatively open place for a perch, where it sits in the bright sunlight watching for its prey" (Fisher).
FLORIDA BURROWING OWL
Speotyto cunicularia floridana
A small, ground Owl, with nearly naked legs and feet and no ear-tufts. The upperparts are grayish brown marked with white; the throat is white, rest of underparts barred with grayish brown and white. L. 9.
Range. Southern Florida, chiefly in the Kissimmee Prairie region.
This is a representative of our western Burrowing Owl, which, in some way unknown to man, has established itself far from others of its kind in central southern Florida, where it is locally common. It nests in a hole in the ground, excavated by itself, and lays 5-7 white eggs in March.
PARROTS, MACAWS, PAROQUETS, COCKATOOS. ORDER PSITTACI
PARROTS AND PAROQUETS. FAMILY PSITTACIDÆ
CAROLINA PAROQUET
Conuropsis carolinensis carolinensis