Natural Foods of Strigiformes (Owls)
Other Birds Eaten
Common Family
Name Eaten
Barn Owl Barred Owl Burrowing Owl Common Screech Owl Great Horned
Owl
Long-eared
Owl
Saw-whet
Owl
Short-eared
Owl
Snowy Owl
Blackbirds Blackbirds
Bobolinks
Cowbirds
Grackles
Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird

Bobolinks Blackbirds
Northern Oriole
Blackbirds
Meadowlarks
Red-winged Blackbird Red-winged Blackbird Grackles
Red-winged Blackbird
 
Creepers                
Finches, Sparrows, Buntings, Grosbeaks Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Towhee
Cardinals
Juncos
Towhees
Sparrows Goldfinch
Indigo Bunting
Juncos
Song Sparrow
Sparrows
Juncos
Snow Bunting
Sparrows
Cardinals
Finch
Goldfinch
Juncos
Towhees
Juncos
Sparrows
Fox Sparrow
Juncos
Vesper Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
 
Flycatchers       Kingbirds
Peewees
Phoebes
         
Goatsuckers     Nighthawks            
Grebes         Pied-Billed Grebe      
Gulls & Terns                 Gulls (Small)
Hawks       Kestrel Coopers
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered
Red-tailed
       
Herons & Bitterns Green Heron       American Bittern
Herons (Small)
       
Jays & Crows Blue Jay Blue Jay
Crow
  Blue Jay Blue Jay
Crow
       
Kingfishers                  
Kinglets, Gnatcatcher           Kinglets   Kinglets  
Larks       Horned          
Nuthatches                    
Owls   Owl (Small)     Barn
Barred
Long-eared
Screech
       
Pigeons & Doves Pigeons Doves   Pigeons Mourning Doves
Pigeons
  Pigeons    
Pipits                
Plovers                  
Rails, Coots & Gallinules Clapper Rail
Sora Rail
Purple Gallinule     Coot
Gallinule
King Rail
Virginia Rail
    Sora Coots
Sandpipers & Phalaropes       American Woodcock American Woodcock
Red Phalarope
Wilson's Snipe
Yellowlegs
       
Starlings          
Swallows            
Tanagers       Scarlet Tanager   Scarlet Tanager      
Thrushes & Thrashers   Brown Thrasher
Catbirds
Robins
Thrushes
  Bluebirds
Catbirds
Robins
Thrushes
Mockingbirds
Robins
Bluebirds
Brown Thrasher
Thrushes
  Hermit Thrush
Robins
 
Titmice       Chickadees          
Vireos                    
Warblers        
Waterfowl         Canada Geese
Ducks
Swans
      Ducks
Geese (Young)
Waxwings       Cedar Waxwing          
Woodpeckers Flickers     Downy Woodpecker Flickers
Sapsuckers
Woodpeckers
    Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  
Wrens     House Wren          

Notes:

  1. A indicates a bird family eaten
Information compiled using Arthur Cleveland Bent's Life Histories Series
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