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Long-eared Owl

Asio otus

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in all 100 counties, across 10 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
10

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
10
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 10

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

1 of 10

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
SummerWinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old FieldLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr)Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain", Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

Mountain balds

Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.

SummerWinterSouthern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier

Floodplain and bottomland forests

fallen (uprooted) tree
SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian SystemsNamed place / source context. Shown: Congaree Swamp National Monument floodplain forest, South Carolina; representative illustration, no exact viewpoint, a neighboring state.fallen (uprooted) tree, John Dawson, by1988. Public domain. Source record.

Rich cove forests

Cove hardwood forest
SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Southern and Central Appalachian Cove ForestRegional / representative. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee; representative habitat composite, not a documented exact viewpointCove hardwood forest, Hynes, Robert 'Bob', by 2012. Public domain. Source record.

Spruce-fir forests

Spruce-fir forest
SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Regional / representative. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee; representative habitat composite, not a documented exact viewpointSpruce-fir forest, Hynes, Robert 'Bob', by 2012. Public domain. Source record.

Streams, rivers and their banks

Drawing, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina, 1865–70
SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian SystemsFrederic Edwin Church, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina (1865-70): a boulder-strewn mountain river under autumn-coloured ridges. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. North Carolina mountains (Frederic Edwin Church, oil sketch 1865-70; Cooper Hewitt)Drawing, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina, 1865–70, Frederic Edwin Church, 1865-1870. Public domain. Source record.

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric; Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest; Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland; Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest

Northern hardwood forests

High mountain forests of beech, yellow birch and sugar maple, including boulderfield forests.

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.
Other habitats in its models (34)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in North Carolina. Those recorded in North Carolina first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (5)
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens 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.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • 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 (15)
  • 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 Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Year-round: nests here, in 2 of 100 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 100 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, 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 89

Plants 1314

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in North Carolina

Mountain balds

Birds 23

Plants 76

All of mountain balds in North Carolina

Dry forests and woodlands

Birds 53

Plants 217

All of dry forests and woodlands in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources