WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Circus cyaneus | Northern Harrier 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The northern harrier has a circumpolar distribution.  In North America,
it is found from north Alaska east across Canada to the Atlantic Coast,
and south to Mexico [8,16].  It breeds from the northernmost part of
its range through the central states, and winters in the southern states.
Some populations are year-round residents [16].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands


STATES : 


    
AL
    
AK
	
AZ
    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
FL
    
GA


    
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






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
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 : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K048  California steppe
   K049  Tule marshes
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass - grama - buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K072  Sea oats prairie
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K079  Palmetto prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K081  Oak savanna
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K086  Juniper - oak savanna
   K087  Mesquite - oak savanna
   K088  Fayette prairie
   K092  Everglades
   K105  Mangrove
   K114  Pocosin


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    16  Aspen
    63  Cottonwood
    74  Cabbage palmetto
   105  Tropical hardwoods
   106  Mangrove
   217  Aspen
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Northern harriers inhabit wetland plant communities of sedge (Carex
spp.), rush (Juncus spp.), reed (Phragmites spp.), bulrush (Scirpus
spp.), willow (Salix spp.), and tamarisk (Tamarix spp.) [6,16].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Circus cyaneus | Northern Harrier