The owl's toadstool is not only a valuable fur, down and chitin, but also an immense storehouse of information about the owl's diet, life, health, and lifestyle.
By the appearance of the pellet, you can determine whether the owl is healthy, what it ate, where it ate, who lives in its biotope, even what grows in its biotope. For example, we found out with Aleksey Levashkin that Great grey owls near Nizhny Novgorod eat small shiny bugs when there are no mice. And I knew that the scops owls still hadn't eaten the crested gecko, since it wasn't in the pellets.
Owl food must be of such a structure that there is still material for the toadstool. Bones, fur, down, feathers, chitin-all this should be present in the diet. Feeding an owl clean meat is not just harmful, it is very critical for its health and well-being. Therefore, rodents, insects, quails are the basis of the owl's diet. There are no substitutes.
#owl #Yoll #asmr