WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Asio flammeus | Short-Eared Owl 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The short-eared owl occurs on all continents except Australia and
Antarctica [5,12,28].  In North America, it is distributed from Alaska
and all Canadian provinces except the Northwest Territories south
through the conterminous United States to central Mexico.  It also
occurs on Pacific and Caribbean islands including Hawaii, Puerto Rico,
and the Virgin Islands [12,22,23,28].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands<
FRES44 Alpine


STATES : 


    
AL
    
AK
	
AZ
    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
FL
    
GA


    
HI
    
ID
    
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
KS
    
KY
    
LA
    
ME
    
MD


    
MA
    
MI
    
MN
    
MS
    
MO
    
MT
    
NE
    
NV
    
NH
    
NJ


    
NM
    
NY
    
NC
    
ND
    
OH
    
OK
    
OR
    
PA
    
RI
    
SC


    
SD
    
TN
    
TX
    
UT
    
VT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI
    
WY


    
DC
    
PR
    
VI
    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NS
    
ON
    
PE
    
PQ


    
SK
    
YT
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K030  California oakwoods
   K042  Creosotebush - bursage
   K043  Paloverde - cactus shrub
   K048  California steppe
   K049  Tule marshes
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K061  Mesquite - acacia savanna
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K079  Palmetto prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K088  Fayette prairie
   K092  Everglades
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    37  Northern white-cedar
    38  Tamarack
    68  Mesquite
   209  Bristlecone pine
   242  Mesquite
   250  Blue oak - Digger pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
The short-eared owl occurs in most open plant communities in North
America [12,13,21,22,28].  Taiga is usually used only in late summer
[12].  The owl avoids tundra and closed-canopy brushland and forest
[12,21,22,32].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

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