Outside of Europe within Eurasia, the feeding association with voles for long-eared owls weakens somewhat but does continue apiece in adjacent Turkey, particularly southern vole and Günther's vole ("Microtus guentheri") (the latter, for instance, making up to 78.7% of 5324 prey items in Karapınar). In the Middle East, prey preferences varied based on soil composition in desert edge areas, with Israeli studies showing primary shifting rapidly from "Gerbillus" gerbil species to "Meriones" jirds to Günther's voles, with similar findings in wintering owls in Iran. Relatively large-sized prey, Indian gerbils ("Tatera indica") and short-tailed bandicoot rats ("Nesokia indica"), was reported for wintering long-eared owls in Iran estimated to average and , respectively, constituted a good portion of the prey (72.9% of biomass) and taken in almost even numbers with smaller "Gerbillus" species. Much further east, in China and Mongolia, long-eared owls often subsist on different varieties rodent, especially small hamsters, which are also cricetid but not arvicoline, such as the Chinese striped ("Cricetulus barabensis") and Roborovski dwarves ("Phodopus roborovskii"), alternatively with larger jirds, such as midday jirds ("Meriones meridianus"), as well as house mice. In more northerly eastern regions, voles continue to be of import. In western Siberia, tundra voles, narrow-headed voles ("Microtus gregalis"), Eurasian harvest mouse ("Micromys minutus") and steppe lemming ("Lagurus lagurus") were the main rodent prey. In Japan, diet is strongly biased to rodents such as Japanese grass vole ("Microtus montebelli") (84.2% of foods in Niigata on Honshu), grey red-backed vole ("Myodes rufocanus") (87.2% on Hokkaido) or house mouse (77.7% in Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku).