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Marco Island Florida Holiday Ornament - Burrowing Owl

Marco Island Florida Holiday Ornament - Burrowing Owl

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A burrowing owl standing on long legs at the mouth of its burrow, a red flag on the stake beside it. Marco's smallest landowners, and its most protected.

Burrowing owls dig into the sandy vacant lots all over Marco Island, and the island has decided to let them. Volunteers mark every burrow with stakes and string, builders work around them, and residents learn the rule early: the owls were here first. A few hundred pairs nest on the island, more than almost anywhere else in Florida.

The owls stand sentry at their burrows all day, bobbing when you get close, and a staked lot with an owl on it is as much a Marco sight as the beach.

A town that protects a nine-inch bird over a buildable lot is telling you what it values. The red flag on the stake is the holiday touch and the local signal both.

The Marco Island owls are burrowing owls, the smallest of the Florida owls, nesting in staked burrows across Marco Island, Florida. This owl ornament is a Marco Island Christmas ornament and burrowing owl gift, a Marco Island souvenir from the island that lets the owls go first.

3-inch faceted crystal glass ornament, white-backed print, line-drawn in 1880s engraving style, your choice of white or gold gift box.

Every Marco Island ornament ships ready to give, and profits support hunger relief. Hang it on the tree, in a window, off a lamp, or send one to the person who misses Marco Island most.

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When Ponce de León’s Spanish reached this coast in the early 1500s, they named the island La Isla de San Marco and met the Calusa, who fought them off; by the 1700s, war and disease had emptied the chiefdom. Centuries later the pioneers came. William T. Collier founded the village of Marco in 1870, and his son, Capt. Bill Collier, opened the Olde Marco Inn in 1896 — still serving guests today. For decades the island ran on clams and oysters, canned at Caxambas Pass and shipped north.

Today Marco Island is white sand and warm water, shell mounds and shelling, a quietly upscale paradise at the edge of the Everglades. Our Marco Island designs gather that identity — the alligator emblem, the Calusa shell island, the wide Gulf beach — into wearable form. Marco Island — where Florida’s widest sugar-sand beach rises from a thousand years of shells.

Why People Visit Marco Island

Marco Island rewards visitors who want wide white sand, warm shallow water, and shells underfoot, with a rare depth of history close by. Add the boat trips into the Ten Thousand Islands and the year-round Gulf sun, and the case makes itself.

Marco Island Florida Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring the Florida alligator over Florida Territory Est. 1845

Wear Local. Feed Local. Stay Classic.

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Who are we?

Merlin Classics is a volunteer-run, AI-assisted apparel project celebrating timeless local style. Every item is made to order, and profits (revenue minus external product/marketing cost) support hunger-relief programs in the communities our collections spotlight. Classic looks, real local impact—every purchase helps.