Diet Overlap

Athene cunicularia (Burrowing Owl)
Pituophis catenifer (Gopher Snake)

Common Diet

Dipodomys ordii (Ord's kangaroo rat)
Geomys bursarius (plains pocket gopher)
Lemmiscus curtatus (sagebrush vole)
Microtus montanus (montane vole)
Perognathus parvus (Great Basin pocket mouse)
Peromyscus maniculatus (deer mouse)
Sylvilagus nuttallii (Nuttall's cottontail)
Thomomys talpoides (northern pocket gopher)

Common Habitat

Arizona Mountains forests
Baja California desert
Blue Mountains forests
California Central Valley grasslands
California coastal sage and chaparral
California Floristic Province
California interior chaparral and woodlands
California montane chaparral and woodlands
Central and Southern Cascades forests
Central and Southern mixed grasslands
Central forest-grasslands transition
Central tall grasslands
Chihuahuan desert
Colorado Plateau shrublands
Eastern Cascades forests
Edwards Plateau savanna
Great Basin montane forests
Great Basin shrub steppe
Gulf of California xeric scrub
Klamath-Siskiyou forests
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands
Meseta Central matorral
Mesoamerica
Mojave desert
Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands
Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands
North Central Rockies forests
Northern California coastal forests
Northern mixed grasslands
Northern short grasslands
Okanagan dry forests
Palouse grasslands
San Lucan xeric scrub
Sierra de la Laguna dry forests
Sierra Juarez and San Pedro Martir pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
Sierra Nevada forests
Sinaloan dry forests
Snake-Columbia shrub steppe
Sonoran desert
South Central Rockies forests
Tamaulipan matorral
Tamaulipan mezquital
Texas blackland prairies
Veracruz dry forests
Veracruz moist forests
Wasatch and Uinta montane forests
Western Gulf Coastal grasslands
Western short grasslands
Wyoming Basin shrub steppe

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Comparative Diets of Burrowing Owls in Oregon and Washington, Gregory A. Green, Richard E. Fitzner, Robert G. Anthony and Lee E. Rogers, Northwest Science, Vol. 67, No. 2, 1993, pp. 88-93
♦ 2Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165–183
♦ 3Geomys bursarius (Rodentia: Geomyidae), MATTHEW B. CONNIOR, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 43(879):104–117 (2011)
♦ 4Thomomys talpoides, B. J. Verts and Leslie N. Carraway, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 618, pp. 1-11 (1999)