Bird
Long-eared Owl
Asio otus
A winter visitor to Alabama, found in 59 of 67 counties and 6 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 59 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 6

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 59 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 6
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 6
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
Other habitats in its models (40)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Seasons in Alabama
- Winter: does not nest here, in 59 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 285
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Eastern RedbudCercis canadensis
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- Shagbark HickoryCarya ovata
- Mockernut HickoryCarya tomentosa
- White AshFraxinus americana
- White OakQuercus alba
- Southern Red OakQuercus falcata
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Poison-ivyToxicodendron radicans
- Florida MapleAcer floridanum
- Chalk MapleAcer leucoderme
- Sugar MapleAcer saccharum
- PuttyrootAplectrum hyemale
- Spreading RockcressArabis patens
- Walking FernAsplenium rhizophyllum
- Wild HyacinthCamassia scilloides
- Tall BellflowerCampanulastrum americanum
- Longstalk SedgeCarex pedunculata
- Purple SedgeCarex purpurifera
- Southern Shagbark HickoryCarya carolinae-septentrionalis
- Spotted WintergreenChimaphila maculata
- Flowering DogwoodCornus florida
- American Smoke TreeCotinus obovatus
Wildlife 215
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Long-eared Owl
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)















































