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Long-eared Owl

Asio otus

A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in all 75 counties and 4 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Arkansas 4

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 4

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

SummerWinterSoutheastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerWinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems
Other habitats in its models (43)

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

  • 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.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland 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.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous 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.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest 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.
  • 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.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 75 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 100

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

Wildlife 212

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

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

Sources