The mammalian diet of Barn Owls at a lowland wet grassland in Yorkshire

摘要

The diet of the Barn Owl Tyto alba is well studied across the globe and has been the subject of some studies in Yorkshire (Howes, 1998). Although it is a scarce breeding bird in the county (Mather, 1986), the ease of collection and analysis of its pellets can give useful insights into the small mammal fauna of the habitats and locations across which it hunts. This note reports on the contents of 137 Barn Owl pellets collected from nesting boxes at Broomhill Flash, Yorkshire (SE4102), between 2009 and2011.