WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Speotyto cunicularia | Burrowing Owl 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Burrowing owl is a pan-American species.  In North America, it is
distributed from British Columbia and Manitoba south through the western
half of the United States, Louisiana, Florida, the Carribean islands,
and Mexico.  Distribution continues through Central America to western
South America, from Columbia south to Tierra del Fuego in Argentina
[2,35,61].

Distribution of North American subspecies:  Speotyto cunicularia ssp.
hypugaea is distributed from southern interior British Columbia east to
south-central Manitoba and south to west-central Mexico.  Populations in
British Columbia are reintroduced; prior to the 1986 reintroduction,
burrowing owl had not been sighted in British Columbia since 1979.  The
range of S. c. ssp. hypugaea once extended to Minnesota and Iowa, but
burrowing owl is probably extirpated from those states [28].

Speotyto cunicularia ssp. floridana occurs in Florida and the Bahama
islands.  In Florida, the subspecies was formerly restricted to central
and southern portions of the state, but has expanded its range northward
nearly to Georgia [28].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands


STATES : 


    
AZ
    
CA
    
CO
    
FL
    
ID
    
KS
    
LA
    
MT
    
NE
    
NV


    
NM
    
ND
    
OK
    
OR
    
SD
    
TX
    
UT
    
WA
    
WY






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
SK






    
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 : 
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K027  Mesquite bosque
   K030  California oakwoods
   K035  Coastal sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K041  Creosotebush
   K042  Creosotebush-bursage
   K043  Paloverde-cactus shrub
   K044  Creosotebush-tarbush
   K047  Fescue-oatgrass
   K048  California steppe
   K049  Tule marshes
   K050  Fescue-wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass-bluegrass
   K053  Grama-galleta steppe
   K054  Grama-tobosa prairie
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta-three-awn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama-tobosa shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
   K065  Grama-buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass-needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass-grama-buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem-grama prairie
   K070  Sandsage-bluestem prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K077  Bluestem-sacahuista prairie
   K079  Palmetto prairie
   K085  Mesquite-buffalograss
   K088  Fayette prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    68  Mesquite
   242  Mesquite
   250  Blue oak-foothills pine
   255  California coast live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   101  Bluebunch wheatgrass
   102  Idaho fescue
   103  Green fescue
   104  Antelope bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   105  Antelope bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
   106  Bluegrass scabland
   107  Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
   201  Blue oak woodland
   202  Coast live oak woodland
   204  North coastal shrub
   205  Coastal sage shrub
   212  Blackbush
   214  Coastal prairie
   215  Valley grassland
   216  Montane meadows
   217  Wetlands
   301  Bluebunch wheatgrass-blue grama
   302  Bluebunch wheatgrass-Sandberg bluegrass
   303  Bluebunch wheatgrass-western wheatgrass
   304  Idaho fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass
   305  Idaho fescue-Richardson needlegrass
   306  Idaho fescue-slender wheatgrass
   307  Idaho fescue-threadleaf sedge
   308  Idaho fescue-tufted hairgrass
   309  Idaho fescue-western wheatgrass
   310  Needle-and-thread-blue grama
   311  Rough fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass
   312  Rough fescue-Idaho fescue
   313  Tufted hairgrass-sedge
   314  Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   315  Big sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   316  Big sagebrush-rough fescue
   317  Bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   318  Bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
   319  Bitterbrush-rough fescue
   320  Black sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   321  Black sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   322  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
   323  Shrubby cinquefoil-rough fescue
   324  Threetip sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   401  Basin big sagebrush
   402  Mountain big sagebrush
   403  Wyoming big sagebrush
   502  Grama-galleta
   505  Grama-tobosa shrub
   506  Creosotebush-bursage
   507  Palo verde-cactus
   508  Creosotebush-tarbush
   601  Bluestem prairie
   602  Bluestem-prairie sandreed
   603  Prairie sandreed-needlegrass
   604  Bluestem-grama prairie
   605  Sandsage prairie
   606  Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
   607  Wheatgrass-needlegrass
   608  Wheatgrass-grama-needlegrass
   609  Wheatgrass-grama
   610  Wheatgrass
   611  Blue grama-buffalograss
   612  Sagebrush-grass
   613  Fescue grassland
   614  Crested wheatgrass
   615  Wheatgrass-saltgrass-grama
   701  Alkali sacaton-tobosagrass
   702  Black grama-alkali sacaton
   703  Black grama-sideoats grama
   704  Blue grama-western wheatgrass
   705  Blue grama-galleta
   706  Blue grama-sideoats grama
   707  Blue grama-sideoats grama-black grama
   708  Bluestem-dropseed
   709  Bluestem-grama
   710  Bluestem prairie
   711  Bluestem-sacahuista prairie
   712  Galleta-alkali sacaton
   713  Grama-muhly-threeawn
   714  Grama-bluestem
   715  Grama-buffalograss
   716  Grama-feathergrass
   717  Little bluestem-Indiangrass-Texas wintergrass
   718  Mesquite-grama
   719  Mesquite-liveoak-seacoast bluestem
   720  Sand bluestem-little bluestem (dunes)
   721  Sand bluestem-little bluestem (plains)
   722  Sand sagebrush-mixed prairie
   723  Sea oats
   724  Sideoats grama-New Mexico feathergrass-winterfat
   725  Vine mesquite-alkali sacaton
   726  Cordgrass
   727  Mesquite-buffalograss


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Burrowing owl occurs in grasslands, shrub-grasslands, and savannas [63].


REFERENCES : 
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