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Re: Suburban Barreds





JSR wrote:
> >Could bird feeding be concentrating passerines in predictable >locations, 
>to the point that hunting them becomes profitable >for an owl in ways that 
>it isn't out in the countryside? Or is >it that the suburbs have different 
>common passerine species, >starlings and mockingbirds and sparrows and
> >such, as opposed to the more wary and less catchable chickadees,
> >woodpeckers, etc. in rural habitats?

and GD. inquired:
>It will be interesting to find out just what species the owls are 
>taking....

for what it's worth, the most common species by far I've seen
the UNC Barreds take over the years is(not too surprisingly)
Mourning Doves.

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Rob Gluck
Chapel Hill, NC
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