Bird
Burrowing Owl
Athene cunicularia
Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in 54 of 67 counties, across 4 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 54 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 54 of 67 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 Florida 4
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Evergreen scrub oaks, sand pine and rosemary on deep, white, drought-prone sand ridges, burned rarely but intensely; distinct from the longleaf and turkey oak sandhills.
Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (80)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
- Barren Land Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Active and Stabilized Dune Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Badland Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Shale Badland Summer and winter.
- Columbia Plateau Ash and Tuff Badland Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Serpentine Barren Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Serpentine Barrens Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Madrean Encinal Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna Summer and winter.
- Columbia Plateau Western Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan Creosotebush, Mixed Desert and Thorn Scrub Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan Mixed Salt Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan Stabilized Coppice Dune and Sand Flat Scrub Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan Succulent Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Mixed Salt Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
- Mojave Mid-Elevation Mixed Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
- Sonora-Mojave Creosotebush-White Bursage Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
- Sonora-Mojave Mixed Salt Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
- Sonoran Mid-Elevation Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
- Southern California Coastal Scrub Summer and winter.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan Mixed Desert and Thorn Scrub Summer and winter.
- Sonoran Paloverde-Mixed Cacti Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Sandhill Steppe Summer and winter.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer and winter.
- Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer and winter.
- Columbia Plateau Low Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub Steppe Summer and winter.
- Great Basin Semi-Desert Chaparral Summer and winter.
- Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Juniper Savanna Summer and winter.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
- Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Mat Saltbush Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Wyoming Basins Dwarf Sagebrush Shrubland and Steppe Summer and winter.
- Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Southern Colorado Plateau Sand Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Colorado Plateau Blackbrush-Mormon-tea Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer and winter.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Summer and winter.
- Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer and winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
- Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
- California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Summer and winter.
- California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Summer and winter.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
- California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Year-round: nests here, in 54 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 62
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Quercus myrtifoliaQuercus myrtifolia
- Sandy-field BeaksedgeRhynchospora megalocarpa
- Scrub PalmettoSabal etonia
- Cabbage PalmettoSabal palmetto
- Pinescrub BluestemSchizachyrium niveum
- Schizachyrium scoparium var. stoloniferumSchizachyrium stoloniferum
- Lewton's MilkwortSenega lewtonii
- Tough BumeliaSideroxylon tenax
- Sisyrinchium xerophyllumSisyrinchium xerophyllum
- Sorghastrum secundumSorghastrum secundum
- Sporobolus curtissiiSporobolus curtissii
- Vaccinium darrowiiVaccinium darrowii
- Vaccinium myrsinitesVaccinium myrsinites
- Carter's PinelandcressWarea carteri
Wildlife 204
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Crested CaracaraCaracara cheriway
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Florida Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia floridana
- Florida Grasshoper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum floridanus
- Florida Scrub-jayAphelocoma coerulescens
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
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 Burrowing Owl Elevation 0 to 2,743 m
- 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)

























