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Bones |
Tawny Owl
Pellets and Pellet Contents |
Tawny Owl skull - side view |
Pellet to be analysed...
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front leg segments of 6 Mole
Crickets
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Tawny Owl skull - top view |
Pellet contents: bones of small
rodents and Mole Cricket legs
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Mole Cricket front leg
"shoulder" segment enlarged
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Tawny Owl skull - bottom
view |
Pellets 2,3 i 4
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Mole Cricket front leg "hand
with fingers" segment enlarged
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Trush or Blackbird skelleton |
Pellet 2,3 & 4 contents:
small bones
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Probably the head of a very small
snake
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All bones are
found as they were in a nature!
Bones
identification done by the help of the www.skullsite.com
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Pellets
were found near the Tawny Owl nesting and roosting site.
Fot the identification of Mole Cricket legs we thank to the
biologist Tatjana Grove - visit her interesting pages on: www.tanjasova.com
The page http://perso.orange.fr/insectes.net/courtiliere/court2.html
compares design of the Mole (mammal) and the Mole Cricket (insect)
front legs.
Romilly's page: www.godsownclay.com/Owl%20gallery/picspage7.html
also comments on our pellets. |
