Painted Desert Inn not currently available at the inn. Hopi artist Fred Kabotie was engaged by Colter to paint the Inn's murals in 1947–48. Colter knew Kabotie from a previous collaboration at the Fred Harvey Hopi House in Grand Canyon National Park. Kabotie's work depicts aspects of Hopi life, including a journey through the Painted Desert to collect salt. Painted Desert Inn Painted Desert Inn is a lodge complex in Petrified Forest National Park, in Navajo County, eastern Arizona. It is located off of Interstate 40 and historic U.S. Route 66, overlooking the Painted Desert. The inn's lodge building and adobe guest cabins−"casitas"
Desert owl demonstrated that the holotype of "S. butleri" was not actually a member of this species, but was instead most likely an Omani owl (which had been described as a new species, "S. omanensis", in 2013). Because the allocation of "Strix butleri" to the Omani owl left the more widespread species without a name, the authors of the study named it "S. hadorami" after Israeli ornithologist Hadoram Shirihai, and gave it the new common name desert tawny owl (which has been subsequently shortened to desert owl by some authors). Desert owl The desert owl or desert tawny owl ("Strix hadorami"), formerly