Tierra de Oro Laboratory

Physiology and Ecology in the Pinyon-Juniper Savanna

Owlet Growth 2026

We’ve entered the next phase. Almost all of the eggs have hatched, and the owlets are feeding and growing.

Food Deliveries 5/2/26 to 5/4/26

More owlet feedings. 

The male drops off an insect (grasshopper or cricket?) to one of the owlets.  

Second video shows delivery of a cricket to an owlet who voraciously swallows it, and a minute later another cricket is delivered to another hungry owlet. 

In the third, the male is delivering a bird when the female returns and it’s a bit tight in the box for him to turn around and depart. She doesn’t pay any attention to what he brought so he drops it and tries to get outta there. 

One egg is still not hatched, likely infertile.