Dytiscid Beetle Remains Discovered in a Pellet from a Great Gray Owl, Strix nebulosa, Nest

Authors

  • Kevin C. R. Kerr Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v122i1.551

Keywords:

Great Gray Owl, Strix nebulosa, predaceous diving beetle, Dytiscus alaskanus, pellet, Goose Creek, Churchill, Manitoba

Abstract

On 18 July 2007, near Goose Creek, south of Churchill Manitoba, a Great Gray Owl, Strix nebulosa, pellet that contained the pronotum and elytra of a predacious diving beetle, Dytiscus alaskanus, was discovered at a nest.

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Vol. 122 No. 1 (2008)

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