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Barred Owl

Strix varia

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Year-round in Alabama, breeding, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 9 habitats found here.

Seasons here
Year-round
Breeding
Breeding
Range
67 of 67 counties
Habitats
9

At a glance

Group
Birds
Seasons in Alabama
Year-round
Breeding
Breeding
Counties in known range
67 of 67
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

Southeast habitat models (USGS, 2001 land cover). The bird is not in every place a habitat occurs. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models Year-round model

Habitats in Alabama 9

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. Shared habitat, not food.

1 of 9

Swamps

Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp
Year-roundSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress DomeRegional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal swamps, Florida to Virginia; state not identified, a neighboring state.Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

Year-roundSouthern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest; Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood; Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier; Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland; Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest; Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest; Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

Year-roundSouthern Piedmont Mesic Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest; South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

Year-roundSouth-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian
Other habitats in its models (76)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.

  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Year-round
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Year-round
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Year-round
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round
  • Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Year-round
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Year-round
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Year-round
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Year-round
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Year-round
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Year-round
  • Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Year-round
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Year-round
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Year-round
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Year-round
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Year-round
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Year-round
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Year-round
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Year-round
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Year-round
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Year-round
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round
  • Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Year-round
  • South Florida Cypress Dome Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Year-round
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Year-round
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Year-round
  • Mississippi River Riparian Forest Year-round
  • Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Year-round
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Year-round
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Year-round
  • Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round
  • Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round
  • The model selects forest interior beyond the immediate edge.

Model settings

Settings in the USGS model, not field measurements.

Habitat names: NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0.

Seasons in Alabama

Modeled range from USGS maps (2001), by watershed. Not sighting records. Migratory gives no dates. USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps

  • Year-round. Breeding and nonbreeding. Range includes 67 of 67 counties

Also found in this habitat

Plants 834

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 189

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources