Introductory
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Asio flammeus | Short-Eared Owl 



ABBREVIATION : 
ASFL

COMMON NAMES : 
   short-eared owl


TAXONOMY : 
The currently accepted scientific name of short-eared owl is Asio
flammeus (Pontoppidan) [1].  It is in the family Strigidae [28].  Only
the type subspecies, Asio flammeus flammeus, occurs in North America.
A. f. ponapensis, Ponape short-erared owl, occurs on the Caroline
islands, and A. c. sandwichensis, Hawaiian short-eared owl, occurs on
the Hawaiian islands [13,28].


ORDER : 
Strigiformes

CLASS : 
Bird

FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS : 
See OTHER STATUS

OTHER STATUS : 
Ponape short-eared owl is federally listed as a Category 1 subspecies,
and Hawaiian short-eared owl is federally listed as a Category 2
subspecies [53].

Short-eared owl is listed as a species of special concern in California
[10] and endangered in Illinois [51], Massachusetts [11] and Oahu,
Hawaii [22].  The Audubon Society's Blue List reports populations as
widely down in Ontario, the middle western prairie, and the Southern
Great Plains, and greatly down in the central southern prairie provinces
and the mid-Pacific Coast [52].


COMPILED BY AND DATE : 
Janet L. Howard, August 1994; Randy S. Griffith, August 1993


LAST REVISED BY AND DATE : 
NO-ENTRY


AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION : 
Howard, Janet L.; Griffith, Randy S. 1994. Asio flammeus. In: Remainder of Citation

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Asio flammeus | Short-Eared Owl