Short-eared Owl

• GeneralOne of the few owls that hunts by day and nests on the ground, in the grass.
• It is one of the owls that has travelled furthest: it colonised Hawaii, the Galápagos, the Falkland Islands and dozens of oceanic islands under its own steam, and on some of them gave rise to subspecies or species of their own.
• It is one of the few owls that nests on the ground, in a simple scrape among the grass, and one of the few that hunts in full evening light.
• Its populations are nomadic and follow the vole cycles: in a plague year dozens of pairs can gather in an area where there was not a single one the year before.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Tundra, marshes, open grassland, dunes and steppe across almost the whole world

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

25 days

Litter / clutch size

6

Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Asio flammeus