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Burrowing Owls of Cape Coral

10,000 Birds

It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you. There were three burrows, each with a tenant. There are few places in the United States where simply driving around can leave you with a list of 30+ species, many of them large and spectacular.

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I and the Bird: What is a Wren?

10,000 Birds

That family name Troglodytidae has now come to mean a barbarian, but way back when it just meant “cave-dweller” This is another reference to their more or less reclusive nature and tendency for the birds to forage in dark places and crevices. Which, of course, is why we call them troglodytes.

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