Chris,
I reckon Darwin sorted out any POWL that thought latching onto the back of a
cat on the ground would be a fun ride.
Chris
www.licole.com.au
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> On 21 Mar 2016, at 7:52 PM, Chris Brandis <> wrote:
>
> If POs do not take prey off the ground then how do the catch cats as I have
> seen to cases of a PO with a cat, well half a cat, one black and white and
> one ginger, near Shellharbour, NSW, unless the cats were up a tree.
> Cheers
>
>> On 21/03/2016 1:19 PM, Philip Veerman wrote:
>> 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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