Do the contents of Barn Owl pellets accurately represent the proportion of prey species in the field?

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 972-976

  Yom Tov, Yoram ^a   Wool, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Barn Owl; Pellets; Prey selection; Tyto alba

Indexed keywords

AVES; CROCIDURA SUAVEOLENS; ERYX JACULUS; GERBILLUS ANDERSONI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; JACULUS; MAMMALIA; MERIONES SACRAMENTI; MERIONES TRISTRAMI; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; PASSERIFORMES; SERPENTES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 0030727927     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370149     Document Type: Article

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