Mammals in Tawny Owl (Strixaluco) pellets from Kharkiv Region, Ukraine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Tawny owl (Strixaluco) is a common owl species in Europe, demonstrating generalist diet strategy. Its main prey are small rodents and numerous studies show that the composition of its diet broadly reflects changes in prey species abundance in its habitats. Due to strictly sedentary habits of adult birds and their year-round territoriality, it is possible to locate habitats of their prey with a precision of several hundred metres. Analysis of owl pellets is a traditional method in faunistic studies to provide data on distribution of small mammals, especially cryptic species which are hard to be found using trapping.

New information

Here, we present a dataset on mammals found in Tawny owl pellets collected during up to 13-year studies in the Kharkiv Regio

SUBMITTER: Yatsiuk Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10848618 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature