Relationships of
Vertebrate Animals
to this Plant:
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Quercus falcata (Spanish Oak) [Fagaceae]
(observations are from Belthoff & Ritchison and Moorman & Chapman)
Birds
Accipitridae: Buteo lineatus (Red-shouldered Hawk) [large specimens of this tree were selected as nest sites 16.7% of the time in Georgia] MC1996; Strigidae: Megascops asio (Eastern Screech Owl) [this tree provided 3.4% of the roost sites for young owls in Kentucky & it had average preference for this purpose] BR1990