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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. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (12)
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Northeast (7)
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (7)
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest 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 Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (17)
  • 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.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

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

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Arkansas, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 100

Plants 888

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Arkansas

Prairies and grasslands

Birds 48

Plants 187

All of prairies and grasslands in Arkansas

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 97

Plants 313

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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