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.
- Shining FetterbushLyonia lucida
- Spiked MedusaOrthochilus ecristatus
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Andropogon brachystachyusAndropogon brachystachyus
- Andropogon floridanusAndropogon floridanus
- Splitbeard BluestemAndropogon ternarius
- Aristida spiciformisAristida spiciformis
- Curtiss' MilkweedAsclepias curtissii
- Fourpetal PawpawAsimina tetramera
- Bejaria racemosaBejaria racemosa
- Florida Lady's NightcapBonamia grandiflora
- Clinopodium asheiCalamintha ashei
- Many-flowered Grass-pinkCalopogon multiflorus
- Scrub HickoryCarya floridana
- Ceratiola ericoidesCeratiola ericoides
- Pigmy FringetreeChionanthus pygmaeus
- Florida GoldenasterChrysopsis floridana
- Sweetscented PigeonwingsClitoria fragrans
- False RosemaryConradina canescens
- Largeflower False RosemaryConradina grandiflora
- Avon Park RattleboxCrotalaria avonensis
- Lake Wales BalmDicerandra christmanii
- Longspur BalmDicerandra cornutissima
- Scrub BalmDicerandra frutescens
Wildlife 204
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Long-billed CurlewNumenius americanus
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- Spot-breasted OrioleIcterus pectoralis
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalis
- Whooping CraneGrus americana
- Yellow RailCoturnicops noveboracensis
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
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)



























