Burrowing Owl in Florida

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.

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SummerWinterFlorida Dry PrairieLimestone prairie. Shown: Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

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.

SummerWinter

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier

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

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.