Owls

Short-eared Owl

Asio flammeus

The Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) is a 323 g grassland bird that eats mostly other vertebrates. It migrates.

Family

Owls

Order

Strigiformes

Weight

323 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Vertebrates, fish and carrion

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

58

Recorded in United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Finland, France, Spain, Russia, Chile, India, Germany, Argentina, Ecuador, Portugal, Iceland, Isle of Man, Poland, China, Colombia, Estonia, Brazil, Ukraine, Czechia, Italy, Mexico, Ireland, Japan, Israel, Puerto Rico, Austria, Peru, Turkey, Taiwan, Azerbaijan, Republic of Korea, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Cuba, Falkland Is., Uruguay, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, Belarus, Serbia, BM, Åland, Greece, Switzerland, Mauritania, Morocco, Paraguay, Georgia, Kuwait, Nepal.

Where to see it: Rason Lake (Dem. Rep. Korea); west of Juliana (Libya); Comino (Malta); Helgoland (gesamt) (Germany); Besh Barmag bottleneck (Azerbaijan).

Photo: (c) Kalvin Chan, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist