Pomona Valley Audubon Society
Activities For Kids
Explore Activites for inquisitive owlets Here
You and your family can enjoy Burrowing Owls and learn more about them at these web sites.
Watch the Burrowing Owl enclosure at the San Diego Zoo:
SD ZOO LIVE CAM: https://www.sdzsafaripark.org/cams/burrowing-owl-cams
Contribute to Burrowing Owl research by reviewing and categorizing photos of wild owls to help a San Diego Zoo research project:
SD ZOO CITIZEN SCIENCE. WILDWATCH BURROWING OWLS: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/sandiegozooglobal/wildwatch-burrowing-owl
Test Your Knowledge of Burrowing Owls
Let’s Eat … put a “P” beside the foods that people eat and a “B” beside Burrowing Owls’ food
- ___ Pizza
- ___ ice Cream
- ___ beeties
- ___ Spider
- ___ Hamburgers
- ___ Tacos
- ___ Grasshoppers
- ___ Mice
- ___ Lizards
Part 1: Where do Burrowing Owls live? Circle the correct answer
1) In trees, because they’re birds
2) Under water, where they’re safe
3) In holes in the ground, especially ones dug by ground squirrels or prairie dogs
4) In sand dunes at the beach, and they always wear sunscreen
Part 2: Where do Burrowing Owls live? Circle the correct answer
1) Africa, where they have to be careful not to be eaten by lions
2) North and South America, including Southern California
3) Asia, where they have to look out for tigers
4) At the South Pole, where they like to play with penguins
Do Burrowing Owls make good pets? Circle the correct answer
1) Yes, because they’re so cute
2) No, because they’re wild animals who deserve to live free
3) No, because they can’t be trained to use a litter box
4) Yes, but you have to take them for walks very day and give them lots of toys
Here are some Burrowing Owl 
