- Runs like a roadrunner
- Belongs in a genus of its own
- Tends to be a day bird
- 8.1 to 11 inches long
- 6.5 to 7.8 ounces
- Call is dovelike
- 7 to 9 eggs laid in old burrows
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- Both very small
- Both eat insects and small reptiles
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- 5 to 6 inches
- Call is whi-whi-whi-whi-whi-whi,
chewk-chewk-chewk
- Lays 2-4 eggs in old gila woodpecker holes in
saguaros
- 1 to 1.4 ounces
- These owls are doing well where cactuses are
left undisturbed
- Smallest North American owl
- A night owl.
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