Second Update and Compilation of 4/27/23 Data
After collecting more bones and pellets for a few months after I made the project, I decided it was time for another update. Since early-mid March, I have barely found any new pellets at its roost, so it might be using a different area of the park.
The owl continues to eat more mammals than birds. I have yet to find an herp bones in the pellets, but there's still the rest of spring and summer. After continually finding rufous eastern screech owl feathers throughout the months, I decided that it only ate 1 screech owl.
| Taxa | Count |
|---|---|
| Birds | 5 |
| Northern Short-tailed Shrew | 2 |
| Crows and Ravens | 1 |
| Primates, Rodents, and Allies | 1 |
| Southern Flying Squirrel | 2 |
| New World Blackbirds and Orioles | 1 |
| Hares and Rabbits | 1 |
| Mammals | 13 |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | 1 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 1 |
| Meadow Voles | 2 |
| Old World Mice and Rats | 2 |
| Muroids | 1 |
| Perching Birds | 11 |
| North American Deer Mice | 8 |
| Woodpeckers | 1 |
| Placental Mammals | 2 |
| Old World Rats | 1 |
| Brown Rat | 3 |
| Rodents | 14 |
| Eastern Gray Squirrel | 2 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 1 |
| Eastern Cottontail | 15 |
| American Robin | 1 |
| Vertebrates | 10 |
| Taxa | Count |
|---|---|
| Mammals | 69 |
| Birds | 23 |
| UnIDed | 10 |
| Total | 102 |
Observation Highlights:
This brown rat partial skull and other bones:
An almost complete northern short tailed shrew skull and other bones:
Many thanks to all of the identifiers!
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