Sketch a Burrowing Owl

Monday printable page

Create a quick sketch of this small, wide-eyed fellow in four steps.

Meet Athene curicularia, a very short owl with very long legs who lives underground. Burrowing owls don’t actually burrow - they repurpose abandoned holes dug by badgers, foxes, prairie dogs or ground squirrels. When a predator pokes an inquisitive nose into the darkness of the nest, th…