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Keeping It Simple: Easy Ways to Help Wildlife Along Roads

Photo Gallery for Building homeless shelters for burrowing owls



This is a diagram of a human-made underground nest made for burrowing owls. The picture shows the earthen "mound" under which the nesting box is placed and the pipe entrance to the tunnel-home.
Photo by Photo by Caltrans
Lost habitats aren't a problem for burrowing owls here, thanks to artificial burrows built by the California Department of Transportation.

Updated: 12/12/2012
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