[HTML][HTML] Small mammals in the diet of Barn owls, Tyto alba (Aves: Strigiformes) along the mid-Araguaia River in central Brazil

RG Rocha, E Ferreira, YLR Leite, C Fonseca… - Zoologia …, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
We collected and analyzed 286 Barn owl, Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769), pellets from two nests in
different environments along the mid-Araguaia River in central Brazil. Our analyses revealed …

Variation in the Diet of Western Barn Owls (Tyto alba) Along an Urban-Rural Gradient

P Teta, C Hercolini, G Cueto - The Wilson Journal of …, 2012 - meridian.allenpress.com
We studied geographic variation in the diet of Western Barn Owls (Tyto alba) along a urban-
rural gradient in central-eastern Argentina and identified 5,231 prey items. Mammals were …

Food-niche pattern of the Barn Owl in intensively cultivated agricultural landscape

A Horváth, A Morvai, GF Horváth - Ornis Hungarica, 2018 - sciendo.com
This study investigated the dietary niche of the Barn Owl (Tyto alba) in an intensively farmed
landscape, based on pellet samples from 12 nesting pairs containing 25 animal taxa and …

Trophic niche width increases with bill‐size variation in a generalist passerine: a test of niche variation hypothesis

YC Hsu, PJ Shaner, CI Chang, L Ke… - Journal of Animal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The niche variation hypothesis (NVH) predicts that populations with wider niches are
phenotypically more variable than populations with narrower niches, which is frequently …

A contribution from Barn Owl pellets analysis to known micromammalian distributions in Buenos Aires province, Argentina

P Teta, CM González-Fischer, M Codesido, DN Bilenca - 2010 - degruyter.com
The analysis of owl pellet samples is an extremely valuable tool for mammalogists (Yalden
and Morris 1990). Studies on this topic around the world are eloquent about the potential …

Diet composition of introduced barn owls (Tyto alba javanica) in urban area in comparison with agriculture settings

S Saufi, S Ravindran, NH Hamid… - Journal of Urban …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This study investigated the diet of introduced barn owls (Tyto alba javanica, Gmelin) in the
urban area of the Main Campus of Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, based on …

Small mammals taphonomy and environmental evolution during Late Pleistocene-Holocene in Monte Desert: The evidence of Gruta del Indio (central west Argentina)

FJ Fernández, UFJ Pardiñas - Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Very few excavated sequences in southern South America provide an approximation to the
environmental evolution covering the segment Late Pleistocene-Holocene. Here we present …

Small mammal prey selection by two owl species in southeastern Brazil

A de Arruda Bueno, JC Motta-Junior - Journal of Raptor Research, 2008 - BioOne
A variety of factors influence prey selection by predators. Because Barn Owls (Tyto alba) and
Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) differ in size and foraging tactics, we expected …

Effects of regional context and landscape composition on diversity and composition of small rodent assemblages in Argentinian temperate grasslands and wetlands

C Massa, P Teta, GR Cueto - Mammalia, 2014 - degruyter.com
This study aims to describe landscape evolution in two contiguous ecoregions with different
land use intensity, to assess changes in small mammal assemblages. Rodent remains in …

A comprehensive review of dietary strategies of sigmodontine rodents of central-eastern Argentina: linking diet, body mass, and stomach morphology

S Barbero, P Teta, GH Cassini - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Information on dietary ecology plays a key role in a wide array of biological research and
conservation decisions, but its availability is biased towards large and charismatic taxa …