The burrowing owl, also called the shoco, is a small, long-legged owl found throughout open landscapes of North and South America. Burrowing owls can be found in grasslands, rangelands, agricultural areas, deserts, or any other open, dry area with low vegetation. A burrowing owls burrow ordinary slopes down for about 3 feet, then runs back horizontally to a nesting chamber 10 feet or more from the entrance. The owls line this chamber with feathers, grass, dried mammal dung, and the remains of prey. 5-6 eggs make up a brood, and both parents incubate and raise the eggs. These owls feed on rodents, insects, and reptiles, they hunt during the day as well as at night. Burrowing Owls are capable of producing a variety of cooing, warbling, rasping, clucking, screaming, and rattling sounds, the species is not especially vocal. However, the most commonly heard is a quail-like two-note cooing made by males during mating and territorial defense. Young owls utter eep calls and rasping sounds, the most intense and prolonged of which may scare away predators by mimicking a rattlesnake's warning. Here is a link to all their cries