Diet Overlap

Asio otus (Long-eared Owl)
Asio flammeus (Short-eared Owl)

Common Diet

Acanthis flammea (Common Redpoll)
Blarina brevicauda (Northern Short-tailed Shrew)
Blarina carolinensis (Southern Short-tailed Shrew)
Calidris alpina (Dunlin)
Calidris minutilla (Least Sandpiper)
Lemmiscus curtatus (sagebrush vole)
Microtus agrestis (field vole)
Microtus levis (southern vole)
Microtus montanus (montane vole)
Microtus pinetorum (woodland vole)
Peromyscus leucopus (white-footed mouse)
Sorex araneus (Eurasian shrew)

Common Habitat

Acadia National Park
Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
Alashan Plateau semi-desert
Alberta Mountain forests
Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
Algonquin Provincial Park
Allegheny Highlands forests
Alps conifer and mixed forests
Alsó-Tisza-völgy
Altai alpine meadow and tundra
Alto Garda Bresciano
Amudarya Zapovednik
Amur meadow steppe
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, CA
Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
Appenine deciduous montane forests
Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
Arches National Park
Arizona Mountains forests
Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve
Atlantic coastal pine barrens
Atlantic mixed forests
Audubon National Wildlife Refuge
Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
Azraq Wetland Reserve
Badghyz Zapovednik
Badlands National Park
Baie d'Audierne
Baikalskiy Biosphere Reserve
Bajío dry forests
Balkan mixed forests
Balsas dry forests
Baltic mixed forests
Bandelier National Monument
Barguzinskiy Biosphere Reserve
Basso Taro
Belovezhskaya Pushcha Biosphere Reserve
Berezinskiy Zapovednik
Bialowieza National Park
Big Bend Biosphere Reserve
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
Biotopi e Ripristini ambientali di Bentivoglio, S. Pietro in Casale, Malalbergo e Baricella
Biotopi e Ripristini ambientali di Budrio e Minerbio
Biotopi e Ripristini ambientali di Medicina e Molinella
Biotopo Ahrau di Stegona
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
Blue Mountains forests
Bohai Sea saline meadow
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
Borsodi-sík
Bosco della Mesola, Bosco Panfilia, Bosco di Santa Giustina, Valle Falce, La Goara
Bosco Nordio
BOUCLES DE LA MARNE
British Columbia mainland coastal forests
Bruce Peninsula National Park
Cabrillo National Monument
Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve
Caledon conifer forests
California Central Valley grasslands
California Coast Ranges Biosphere Reserve
California coastal sage and chaparral
California Floristic Province
California interior chaparral and woodlands
California montane chaparral and woodlands
Camargue
Canadian Aspen forests and parklands
Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests
Cantabrian mixed forests
Cape Cod National Seashore
Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge
Capital Reef National Park
Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve
Carpathian montane forests
Carrizo Plain Preserve
Cascade Mountains leeward forests
Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
Caspian lowland desert
Caucasus
Caucasus mixed forests
Cedar Creek LTER Site
Celtic broadleaf forests
Central Anatolian deciduous forests
Central and Southern Cascades forests
Central and Southern mixed grasslands
Central Canadian Shield forests
Central China loess plateau mixed forests
Central European mixed forests
Central forest-grasslands transition
Central Mexican matorral
Central Pacific coastal forests
Central Persian desert basins
Central Plains Biosphere Reserve
Central tall grasslands
Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
Central U.S. hardwood forests
Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve
Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve
Changbai Mountains mixed forests
Changjiang Plain evergreen forests
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
Channel Islands National Park
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Hist. Park
Chickasaw National Recreation Area
Chihuahuan desert
Colorado Plateau shrublands
Colorado Rockies forests
Corbett National Park
Craters of the Moon National Monument
Creighton Ranch Preserve
Crimean Submediterranean forest complex
Cumberland Island National Seashore
Curecanti National Recreation Area
Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests
Daba Mountains evergreen forests
Darvinsky Zapovednik
Daurian forest steppe
Death Valley National Park
Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge
Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
Dinosaur National Monument
DOÑANA
Dyfi National Nature Reserve
East African montane forests
East Central Texas forests
East European forest steppe
Eastern Afromontane
Eastern Anatolian montane steppe
Eastern Canadian forests
Eastern Cascades forests
Eastern forest-boreal transition
Eastern Gobi desert steppe
Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
Edwards Plateau savanna
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Elburz Range forest steppe
Elk Island National Park
English Lowlands beech forests
Estuaire et marais de la Basse Seine
Euxine-Colchic broadleaf forests
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge
Fathom Five National Marine Park
Felsõ-kiskunsági szikes puszták és turjánvidék
Fenland
Firth of Tay & Eden Estuary
Flint Hills tall grasslands
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Flusslandschaft Elbe Biosphere Reserve
Fontanili di Gattatico e Fiume Enza
FORET DE MOULIERE, LANDES DU PINAIL, BOIS DU DEFENS, DU FOU ET DE LA ROCHE DE BRAN
Foret Domaniale du Circeo
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Fraser Plateau and Basin complex
Fundy National Park
GALACHOS DE LA ALFRANCA DE PASTRIZ, LA CARTUJA Y EL BURGO DE EBRO
Galichia Gora Zapovednik
Gateway National Recreation Area
George Washington Memorial Parkway
Georgian Bay Islands National Park
Grasslands National Park
Gray Lodge State Wildlife Area
Great Basin montane forests
Great Basin National Park
Great Basin shrub steppe
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
Greenwater Provincial Park
Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests
Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests
Haapalahti
Helanshan montane conifer forests
Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests
Horicon National Wildlife Refuge
Hortobágy National Park
Hovenweep National Monument
Huang He Plain mixed forests
Humber Estuary
Iberian conifer forests
Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
Illyrian deciduous forests
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Indo-Burma
Irano-Anatolian
Isle of Rum National Nature Reserve
Isola Boscone
Isola Mal di Ventre
Isomatala-Maasyvänlahti
Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
Jalisco dry forests
Jasper National Park
Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests
Junggar Basin semi-desert
Kazakh upland
Kejimkujik Seaside Adjunct
Kempeleenlahden ranta
Khazar Zapovednik
Kirkkojärvi
Kiskunsag Biosphere Reserve
Klamath-Siskiyou forests
Knife River Indian Villages National Hist. Site
Konza Prairie Biosphere Reserve
Kristiinankaupungin saaristo
Krkonose
l'Albufera
Lac de Grand Lieu
Lago di Mezzola e Pian di Spagna
Laguna di Venezia
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Lake Superior Provincial Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Lava Beds National Monument
Le Marais d'Isle
Little St. Simons Island
Long Point Biosphere Reserve
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands
Manchurian mixed forests
Medio Taro
Mediterranean Basin
Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests
Mediterranean woodlands and forests
Mesa Verde National Park
Meseta Central matorral
Mesoamerica
Mesopotamian shrub desert
Mid-Continental Canadian forests
Middle Atlantic coastal forests
Middle East steppe
Midwestern Canadian Shield forests
Mississippi lowland forests
Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve
Mojave desert
Mongolian-Manchurian grassland
Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands
Montesinho/Nogueira
Moor House-Upper Teesdale Biosphere Reserve
Moorfoot Hills
Mount Tamalpais State Park
Mountains of Central Asia
Mountains of Southwest China
Moyenne vallée de l'Oise
Muskwa-Slave Lake forests
Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands
Nenjiang River grassland
Neusiedler See-Osterreichischer Teil
New England-Acadian forests
Nez Perce National Historical Park
Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve
Nile Delta flooded savanna
North America
North Atlantic moist mixed forests
North Bull Island
North Central Rockies forests
North Pennine Moors
Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
Northeastern coastal forests
Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
Northern California coastal forests
Northern Cordillera forests
Northern Indochina subtropical forests
Northern Karelian
Northern mixed grasslands
Northern short grasslands
Northern tall grasslands
Northwest Iberian montane forests
Northwest Territories taiga
Northwestern thorn scrub forests
Okanagan dry forests
Okskiy Biosphere Reserve
Ordos Plateau steppe
Ozark Mountain forests
Ozark National Scenic Riverways
Painuanlahti
Palouse grasslands
Pamir alpine desert and tundra
Pannonian mixed forests
Parco Del Cilento e Vallo de Diano
Parco Regionale Oglio Sud
Paul do Boquilobo Biosphere Reserve
Petrified Forest National Park
Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center
Pindus Mountains mixed forests
Piney Woods forests
PLAINES DU MIREBALAIS ET DU NEUVILLOIS
Po Basin mixed forests
Point Pelee National Park
Point Reyes National Seashore
Pontic steppe
Prince Albert National Park
Prioksko-Terrasny Biosphere Reserve
Puget lowland forests
Pukaskwa National Park
Puszcza Kampinoska
Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
Qilian Mountains conifer forests
Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests
Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests
Rauvolanlahti
Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
Redwood National Park
REGION DE PRESSAC, ETANG DE COMBOURG
Repetek Biosphere Reserve
Reserve de la Biosphere d'Iroise
Reserve de la Biosphere des Vosges du Nord
Reserve Srebarna
RIBERAS DE CASTRONUÑO
Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve
RIED DE COLMAR A SELESTAT, BAS-RHIN
RIED DE COLMAR A SELESTAT, HAUT-RHIN
Rödkallen-SörÄspen
Rodope montane mixed forests
Rondeau Provincial Park
Ruegen
Saaristomeri
Saguaro National Park
Saint Croix International Historic Site
Saint Lawrence Islands National Park
Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge
San Dimas Biosphere Reserve
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Sarmatic mixed forests
Sayan Alpine meadows and tundra
Scandinavian and Russian taiga
Scandinavian coastal conifer forests
Scandinavian Montane Birch forest and grasslands
Schorfheide-Chorin
Sefton Coast
Sequoia and Kings Canyon Biosphere Reserve
Sevilleta LTER Site
Shortgrass Steppe LTER Site
Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests
Sierra Juarez and San Pedro Martir pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
Sierra Nevada forests
Siikalahti, Sammallampi, Rautalahti
Sikhote-Alinskiy Biosphere Reserve
Sinaloan dry forests
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Snake-Columbia shrub steppe
Sonoran desert
Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest
South Appenine mixed montane forests
South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve
South Central Rockies forests
South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests
South Pennine Moors
South Taiwan monsoon rain forests
Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows
Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
Southeastern mixed forests
Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
Southern Great Lakes forests
Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Spreewald
St. Kilda National Nature Reserve
Suiphun-Khanka meadows and forest meadows
Sumava Biosphere Reserve
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests
Taklimakan desert
Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe
Tawas Point State Park
Texas blackland prairies
The Wash and North Norfolk Coast
Tian Shan foothill arid steppe
Tian Shan montane conifer forests
Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests
Trebon Basin Protected Landscape Area
Tsentral'no-Chernozemny Biosphere Reserve
Tsentral'no-Lesnoy Biosphere Reserve
Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Tysjöarna
Ubsunurskaya Kotlovina (Ubsunur Depression)
Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition
Upper Miss. River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge
Valle del Mezzano, Valle Pega
Valle Vecchia - Zumelle - Valli di Bibione
VALLEE DE LA MEUSE
Valli di Argenta
Valli di Comacchio
Valli Mirandolesi
Virginia Coast Biosphere Reserve
Voronezhskiy Biosphere Reserve
Voyageurs National Park
Waddensea of Lower Saxony
Waddensea of Schleswig-Holstein
Wasatch and Uinta montane forests
Waterton Biosphere Reserve
Western European broadleaf forests
Western Great Lakes forests
Western short grasslands
Willamette Valley forests
Wupatki National Monument
Wyoming Basin shrub steppe
Yancheng
Yellow Sea saline meadow
Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve
Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests

Attributes / relations provided by
1Ecology of Commanster
2Making The Forest And Tundra Wildlife Connection
3Blarina brevicauda, Sarah B. George, Jerry R. Choate, and Hugh H. Genoways, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 261, pp. 1-9 (1986)
4Blarina carolinensis, Timothy S. McCay, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 673, pp. 1–7 (2001)
5Raptor Predation on Wintering Shorebirds, G. Page and D. F. Whitacre, The Condor, Vol. 77, No. 1 (Spring, 1975), pp. 73-83
6Lemmiscus curtatus, Lynn E. Carroll and Hugh H. Genoways, Mammalian Species No. 124, pp. 1-6 (1980)
7DIET COMPOSITION OF THE LONG-EARED OWL IN SLOVENIA: SEASONAL VARIATION IN PREY USE, DAVORIN TOME, J Raptor Res. 28(4):253-258
8Avian and mammalian predators of shrews in Europe: regional differences, between-year and seasonal variation, and mortality due to predation, Erkki Korpimäki & Kai Norrdahl, Ann. Zool. Fennici 26:389-400. 1989
9Contribution to the study of the diet of four owl species (Aves, Strigiformes) from mainland and island areas of Greece, Haralambos Alivizatos, Vassilis Goutner and Stamatis Zogaris, Belg. J. Zool., 135 (2) : 109-118
10Microtus montanus, Wendy E. Sera and Cathleen N. Early, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 716, pp. 1–10 (2003)
11Microtus pinetorum, Michael J. Smolen, Mammalian Species No. 147, pp. 1-7 (1981)
12FOOD HABITS OF A HARLAN'S HAWK AND LONG-EARED OWLS IN KANSAS, Ted T. Cable and John S. Bond, Kansas Ornithological BULLETIN, Vol. 42, No. 2, June, 1991, p. 25-27
13BREEDING SEASON DIET OF SHORT-EARED OWLS IN MASSACHUSETTS, DENVER W. HOLT, Wilson Bull., 105(3), 1993, pp. 490-496