Burrowing owls live in open habitats
with sparse vegetation such as prairie, pastures, desert, and shrubsteppe... or, according to Cornell Lab of Ornithology (our go - to owl source for these facts), airports.
Over a majority of the Earth's tropics, air passing over forested land produces twice as much rain as air passing over areas
of sparse vegetation, the study found.
Deserts are always dry
with sparse vegetation; temperatures vary greatly from day to night and season to season, and rainfall is 10 inches (about 25 cm) or less per year.
He will interrupt the diatribe to point out the odd,
sparse vegetation of the soilless plains.
It's mostly ice, and the parts that aren't have
sparse vegetation.
As we stretch out the lengths of the tracks we present to the dog, we will inevitably encounter changes in conditions, drier grass, longer grass, shorter grass, more clover, less clover,
sparser vegetation, different plant composition, etc..
To the left there is nothing to see, just the sheer limestone mountains with
their sparse vegetation.
The remainder of the island is made up of coconut palms and
sparse vegetation, with a few small buildings and a solar - powered lighthouse.
What appears at first glance to be
sparse vegetation, transforms into a vast colony of garden eels, their willowy, graceful bodies protruding from their burrows delicately picking out morsels of food brought to them by the mild current.