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- Title
Caching Behavior by Wintering Northern Saw-Whet Owls, Aegolius acadicus.
- Authors
Devine, Arnold; Smith, Dwight G.
- Abstract
We observed 16 instances of caching behavior by Northern Saw-whet Owls in southern Connecticut between 30 October and 29 March over a 23-year period 1982 to 2004. Caches consisted of a single prey item in 13 instances and two prey items in three instances. Prey was cached either directly beneath the owl or from 5-28 cm distant, always on the same branch on which the owl was roosting. Observations of cached prey marked in the morning suggested that it was consumed after 14:30 in the afternoon of the same day. Such a delay indicated a true cache rather than delayed feeding.
- Subjects
CONNECTICUT; UNITED States; OWLS; BIRDS; EMIGRATION &; immigration; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL sociology; SOCIAL ecology; TYTONIDAE
- Publication
Canadian Field-Naturalist, 2005, Vol 119, Issue 4, p578
- ISSN
0008-3550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22621/cfn.v119i4.191