Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus winter diet in Denmark.

Mosehornuglens vinterføde i Danmark. Jørgen Terp Laursen

Dansk Orn. Foren. Tidsskr. 113 (2019): 81-85.

Mosehornuglen er ikke mere årlig ynglefugl i Danmark

  Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus winter diet in Denmark. The winter diet of Short-eared Owl in Denmark was  studied                            by pellet analysis. In total, 957 pellets from ten sites were analysed (Tabs 1 and 2). In total, 980 animal remains were
  found; distributed on 17 species (Tab. 3). Of these, 98.5% were mammals and 1.3% birds. A single frog and a geotrupid
  beetle were also identified. Among the mammals, Microtus-voles dominated at nine sites, while water voles dominated
  on an island where they were superabundant during the collection year. The study confirms that the Short-eared Owl is

  an opportunistic feeder, utilising the most abundant prey at the particular winter site.

   See more on Dansk Orn. Foren. Tidsskr. 113 (2019): 81-85. Short-eared Owl is no longer an annual breeding bird in Denmark.