Bill-Of-Fare of a Family of Pacific Horned Owls
Journal
Condor
Volume
34
Issue
3 (May-June)
Year
1932
Pages
140
Section
From Field and Study
Online Text
Bill-of-fare of a Family of Pacific Horned Owls
Recently I discovered a nest of Pacific Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus pacificus) containing three young about two weeks old. The nest had formerly been occupied by a California Blue Heron and was located in the top of a valley oak in the center of quite a thick growth of oaks. On this nest were the following birds, all freshly killed: 9 Red-shafted Flickers (Colaptes cafer collaris), 5 Long-tailed Jays (Aphelocoma californica immanis), 3 Band-tailed Pigeons (Columba fascita).
If this is any indication of the usual fare of this species of owl, bird life in general must suffer frightfully from its depredations.
W. B. Sampson
Stockton, California, March 18, 1932
