VIDEO/PHOTOS: Burrowing owls disrupting construction at Naples Municipal Airport
The dust flies, but the burrowing owls stay put as dump trucks rumble past a roped-off patch of a construction zone at the Naples Municipal Airport. The pint-sized birds, a protected species in Florida, are threatening to disrupt work on a $4.5 million taxiway project at the airport. Airport officials have applied for a permit from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to collapse the owls’ burrow but it might not be issued soon enough.