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Barn Owl Food Habits

Published in 1957

A pair of Barn Owls, Tyto alba pratincola, have roosted in the tower of Samford Hall, on the Alabama Polytechnic Institute campus at Auburn, for a number of years. This has made easy the study of their food habits by the collecting of the pellets of hair and bones which they regurgitate at the roost.


Author: Julian L. Dusi
Volume Number: 5 Year Published: 1957
Issue Number: 1-2
Page Number: 7

Link to article: http://birdlife.aosbirds.org/1957/Vol 5 No. 1, 2_1957_p7-8.pdf
Link to the full issue of BirdLife: http://birdlife.aosbirds.org/1957/Vol 5 No. 1, 2_1957.pdf
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Published on:
January 19, 2018

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