Short-eared Owl Images, Facts and Information:
Asio flammeus
- Short-eared Owls are medium sized, mottled brown owls that have ear tufts that are not always visible.
- Short-eared Owls are found in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Hawaii, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands.
- Short-eared Owls will hunt day and night and nest in scrapes lined with grass the ground.
- Nicknames for Short-eared Owls include evening owl, marsh bog owl, grass owl, meadow owl, mouse-hawk and flat-faced owl.
- Preferred habitats for Short-eared Owls in North America include tundra, grasslands, prairies, mountain meadows, salt marshes, freshwater marshes, estuaries and agricultural fields.
- Their diet is small mammals and they occasionally take small birds.
- Short-eared Owls lay 1 to 11 eggs which take 25 to 29 days to hatch. The female incubates.
- In most of their range they are migratory.
- Populations of Short-eared Owls are on the decline. The 2014 State of the Birds Report listed them as a Common Bird in Steep Decline and in Utah they are listed as a Wildlife Species of Concern.
- Short-eared Owls can live 13 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Short-eared Owl photos.
Short-eared Owl photobombed by a butterfly
Title: Short-eared Owl photobombed by a butterfly
Location: Glacier County, Montana
Date: 8/12/2011
Adult Short-eared Owl bringing a vole to a fledgling
Title: Adult Short-eared Owl bringing a vole to a fledgling
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 6/28/2011
Adult Short-eared Owl lifting off from a sagebrush
Title: Adult Short-eared Owl lifting off from a sagebrush
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 6/28/2011
Hidden Juvenile Short-eared Owl
Title: Hidden Juvenile Short-eared Owl
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 6/28/2011
Female Short-eared Owl in grasses
Title: Female Short-eared Owl in grasses
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 6/28/2011
Short-eared Owl flying over a field on Antelope Island State Park
Title: Short-eared Owl flying over a field on Antelope Island State Park
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2011
Hunched over Short-eared Owl female
Title: Hunched over Short-eared Owl female
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Female Short-eared
Title: Female Short-eared
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Short-eared Owl Concentration
Title: Short-eared Owl Concentration
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Short-eared Owl head on
Title: Short-eared Owl head on
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Short-eared Owl at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
Title: Short-eared Owl at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Short-eared Owl female in the fog
Title: Short-eared Owl female in the fog
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Female Short-eared Owl photographed in a lake fog
Title: Female Short-eared Owl photographed in a lake fog
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Horizontal Short-eared Owl female
Title: Horizontal Short-eared Owl female
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Vertical Short-eared Owl female
Title: Vertical Short-eared Owl female
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Female Short-eared Owl looking down
Title: Female Short-eared Owl looking down
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Female Short-eared Owl with head turn
Title: Female Short-eared Owl with head turn
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Female Short-eared Owl staring
Title: Female Short-eared Owl staring
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Female Short-eared Owl in a fog
Title: Female Short-eared Owl in a fog
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010
Female Short-eared Owl parallaxing
Title: Female Short-eared Owl parallaxing
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/15/2010