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DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — North America, Europe, and Asia. 



Breeding range. — In North America the breeding range of the short- 

 eared owl extends north to Alaska (St. Paul Island, Cape Prince of 

 Wales, Cape Blossom, Kobuk River, Wainwright, Point Barrow, and 

 Barter Island); Mackenzie ("50 miles below" Fort Anderson, Frank- 

 lin Bay, and Bernard Harbor) ; northeastern Manitoba (Cape Eskimo) ; 

 and rarely southeastern Baffin Island (Greater Kingwah and Kingnite 

 Fiord). East to rarely southeastern Baffin Island (Kingnite Fiord); 

 Labrador (Fort Chimo, Nachvak, Ramah, Okak, and Port Manvers); 

 Quebec (Anticosti Island and Magdalen Islands) ; Nova Scotia (Kent- 

 ville and Halifax); Massachusetts (Rehoboth, Chatham, Muskeget 

 Island, and Nantucket Island); New York (Plum Island and Gardiners 

 Island); and New Jersey (Barnegat Bay, Beach Haven, Canton, and 

 Cape May). South to New Jersey (Cape May); northwestern New 

 York (Brockport and Buffalo); northern Ohio (Pymatuning Bog, 

 Cleveland, and Circleville) ; northern Indiana (Waterloo, Cedar Lake, 

 and Lowell); southern Illinois (Odin); Missouri (Maple Lake and 

 Kansas City); Kansas (Neosho Falls and Manhattan); probably 

 northeastern Colorado (Sterling); Utah (Salt Lake County and 

 Boulter); northern Nevada (Halleck, Paradise Valley, and Deep 

 Hole); and California (probably Amedee and Los Banos). West to 

 California (Los Banos and Palo Alto); Oregon (Klamath Lake, Bandon, 

 Corvallis, and Salem); Washington (Olympia and Tacoma); British 

 Columbia (Victoria and probably Kamloops); and Alaska (Mount 

 McKinley, Popof Island, Unga Island, Amaknak Island, and St. 

 Paid Island). 



Various authors since 1848 have cited the short-eared owl as a 

 breeding bird of Greenland, but the evidence appears to be entirely 

 hearsay, which through frequent repetition has gained credence. 

 Similarly, there appears to be no unquestioned record for Newfound- 

 land. 



Winter range. — Occasionally, individual short-eared owls will re- 

 main north in winter nearly to the limits of the breeding range but the 

 normal extent of the range at this season seems to extend north to 

 southern British Columbia (Victoria and Okanagan); east-central 

 Washington (Spokane); Alberta (Camrose); Moutana (Corvallis, 

 Boseman, and Terry) ; South Dakota (La Creek, Forestburg, and Sioux 

 Falls); Minnesota (Fort Snelling, St. Vincent, Marshall County, 

 Pipestone County, and Roseau County); southern Wisconsin (Madi- 

 son and Milwaukee); southern Michigan (Ann Arbor and Detroit); 

 southern Ontario (London) ; northern Ohio (Cedar Point and Oberlin) ; 

 New York (Lockport, Rochester, and Auburn); rarely Vermont 

 (Clarendon and Bennington); and Massachusetts (Ipswich). East 



