Abstract
Tyto furcata pellets provide important ecological data on its diet, as well as on the preyed mammals. The present study furnishes data on the diet of T. furcata in a Pantanal area, including records of rare mammals species and a variety of preys with different habits, furnishing evidence of the owl foraging areas.
Highlights
Tyto furcata pellets provide important ecological data on its diet, as well as on the preyed mammals
Brandão 2021, Caldasia 43(1):211-213 In South America most data on raptor pellets comes from the Barn Owl Tyto furcata (Temminck, 1827), with several important published data on mammals on recent decades (Pardiñas et al 2016, Rocha et al 2011)
As T. furcata is an open and semi–open habitat dweller species (Sick 1997), most data on pellets from Brazil comes from open vegetation areas, such as Cerrado (e.g. Motta-Júnior and Talamoni 1996, Bonvicino and Bezerra 2003, Bueno and Motta–Júnior 2008, Rocha et al 2011), Caatinga (Jesus and Oliveira 2017, Mancini et al 2018), and disturbed Atlantic Forest areas (e.g. Scheibler and Christoff 2004, 2007, Souza et al 2010, Faria and Passamai 2013)
Summary
Tyto furcata pellets provide important ecological data on its diet, as well as on the preyed mammals. The present study furnishes data on the diet of T. furcata in a Pantanal area, including records of rare mammals species and a variety of preys with different habits, furnishing evidence of the owl foraging areas.
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