On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, Dennis Paulson wrote:
> I think most of the big owls have a fairly wide prey range, and I'll bet
> (and there is evidence to support it) that smaller owls are taken whenever
> they are encountered. I don't think they are the major prey for any of the
> larger species, just because small mammals (which, after all, are the prey
> of the small owls too) are much more abundant and probably easier to catch.

At an ABA convention several years ago, the gentleman doing the owl
workshop related a story of calling up a Whiskered Screech Owl in Madera
Canyon and having a Spooted Owl take the bird as it sat in the light.
His owling group missed both.
In central Nebraska, I have had good luck calling up eastern
screechs on occasion when it is cloufy, but if the moon comes out, they
shut up, particularly if Great Horneds were in the area. RK
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