Diets of Urban Breeding Barn Owls (Tyto alba) in Tel Aviv, Israel

Motti Charter; Ido Izhaki; Lev Shapira; Yossi Leshem

doi:10.1676/06-109.1

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Motti Charter,^*,** Ido Izhaki,^*** Lev Shapira,^* Yossi Leshem^*

^*Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
^**Corresponding author; charterm@post.tau.ac.il
^***Department of Biology, University of Haifa at Oranim, Tivon 36910, Israel

Abstract

Examination of 193 whole pellets and a number of partial pellets of a pair of Barn Owls (Tyto alba) in Neve Shiret, a neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel during the 2005 and 2006 breeding seasons revealed a total of 711 prey specimens. Six species of small mammals comprised 99.3% of the diet with a frequency of occurrence of 100% in pellets. Levant voles (Microtus socialis guentheri) (48.1%) and house mice (Mus musculus) (32.9%) were the most common prey species. The Barn Owl pair hunted in croplands adjacent to an urban residential area.

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Motti Charter, Ido Izhaki, Lev Shapira, and Yossi Leshem "Diets of Urban Breeding Barn Owls (Tyto alba) in Tel Aviv, Israel," The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119(3), 484-485, (1 September 2007). https://doi.org/10.1676/06-109.1

Received: 19 August 2006; Accepted: 1 November 2006; Published: 1 September 2007

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