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 |
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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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Tamanend Great Horned Owl Diet
