Good Point Philip
I have only seen possums and birds under their feeding/roost tree a few years
back when I knew where it was. I still find many possum entrails which appear
to be from the local Powerful Owl. I have never seen any terrestrial
vertebrates at all. In fact there was a dead Sugar Glider on the ground in his
territory the other day - untouched.
Cheers
Mike
> On 21 Mar 2016, at 1:30 PM, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
>
> Oops whatever is "Terestrail"? My spell checker put that in. Of course that
> should be "terrestrial".
>
> Philip
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Veerman
> Sent: Monday, 21 March 2016 1:20 PM
> To: 'Tony Russell'; 'Michael Norris';
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Do Powerful Owls eat carrion?
>
> I suspect Tony missed the point of the question. Or maybe I have. Or is the
> question about whether possums are made sick from eating rat poison (or even
> poisoned rats). I think the question is concern for the owls if they eat dead
> poisoned rats. We know that Powerful Owls eat possums so that point is far
> from "impossumble" (ha ha). At this month's COG meeting Jerry Olsen talked
> about local raptors and made the point that Powerful Owls eat only animals
> caught in the tree level (arboreal). They are not interested in eating rats
> or other terrestrial fauna. Terestrail fauna apparently does not show in
> their pellets. Whether that is consistent throughout their range (well it
> likely is). So I would suggest on that, that the threat of poisoning from
> eating dead rats should be minimal to nonexistent. How would they find it?
> Although there is the recent photo of a PO holding shorts at a day time roost
> (presumably caught off someone's clothes line).
>
> Philip
>
> -----Original Message-----From: Birding-Aus
> On Behalf Of Tony Russell
> Sent: Monday, 21 March 2016 11:26 AM To: 'Michael Norris';
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Do Powerful Owls
> eat carrion?
>
> I think you'll find it not impossumble that the owl had possumbly killed the
> possae.
>
> Tony.
>
> -----Original Message-----From: Birding-Aus
> On Behalf Of Michael Norris
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 10:12 AM To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Do Powerful Owls eat carrion?
>
> The other day I saw a Powerful Owl near my home in suburban Melbourne, 16km
> from the CBD. It was in a garden where a number of possums have been found
> dead so I’d like to know if these owls eat carrion. My concern is that
> current rat baits can accumulate in the bodies of vertebrates that scavenge
> on corpses.
>
> Michael Norris
>
>
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