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Atlas Results
Eastern Screech-Owl were detected in only two squares during the atlas, despite targeted call broadcast surveys organized in 2021. In 2017 an Eastern Screech-Owl responded to a call broadcast south of Glen Ewen along the Souris River, and another was heard over two nights in 2021 in the town of Eastend along the Frenchman River.
Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
Eastern Screech-Owls live their lives concealed by day in cavities. If you are lucky, you may find a nest cavity in one of the gnarled Manitoba maples that occur in pockets along the streams and rivers of southeastern Saskatchewan. Most of these screech-owls, however, are heard from or near the edges of fields bordering a patch of riparian woods. Eastern Screech-Owls are permanent residents of North America from extreme southeastern Saskatchewan, extreme southern Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, south through the central and eastern US to northeastern Mexico (AOU 1998).
Typical habitat in the heart of the range is discontinuous river bottom woodland comprising Manitoba maple, American elm, and green ash (Adam 1989). Records from the periphery of the range come from a variety of forest types. The key requirement in all areas is the presence of suitable roosting and nesting cavities.
The Eastern Screech-Owl (race M. a. maxwelliae) is a rare permanent resident of riparian woodlands in the southeastern portion of the province, chiefly along the Souris River, the Qu'Appelle River and its tributaries west to Buffalo Pound Lake and Moose Jaw, and the Assiniboine River basin north to Yorkton and Duck Mountain Provincial Park. Other isolated records, including calling birds, have been recorded outside this core area.
Original text by C. I. G. Adam. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Eastern Screech-Owl in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Eastern Screech-Owl in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=EASO&lang=en [14 Nov 2025]
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