Little Brown Bat, Silver-haired Bat, Big Brown Bat, Tundra Shrew, Masked or Common Shrew, Dusky Shrew, Water Shrew, Pygmy Shrew, Tiny Shrew, Northern Red-backed Vole, Southern Red-backed Vole or Gapper's Red-backed Vole, Meadow Vole, Tundra Vole, Long-tailed Vole, Yellow-cheeked Vole, Singing Vole, Northern Collared Lemming, Nelson's Collared Lemming, Unalaska Collared Lemming, Siberian Brown Lemming, North American Brown Lemming, Northern Bog Lemming
Short-eared owls prefer open areas. In interior Alaska they can be found throughout the boreal forest, in coastal areas they will stay around fields and flats.
Nesting
Short-eared Owls prefer to nest on the ground.
