Table 1 Seasonal diet of barn owl in Cyprus in % numbers (N) and % biomass (B), from summer 2013 to summer 2014

Insects

2.7

0.1

1.3

0.1

0.4

0.1

0.4

0.1

–

–

Birds

1.8

3.0

4.2

5.8

3.0

3.8

1.7

2.6

3.5

6.0

Mammals

95.5

96.9

94.5

94.1

96.6

96.1

97.9

97.3

96.5

94.0

Mice (Mus spp.)

64.6

52.0

70.4

48.8

72.2

44.2

76.9

57.2

76.9

62.3

Rats (Rattus spp.)

9.1

36.4

11.9

41.4

16.2

49.5

9.7

36.3

6.6

27.0

Lesser White-toothed shrew (Crocidura suaveolens)

20.8

8.4

10.7

3.7

7.5

2.3

9.6

3.6

11.0

4.4

Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus)

0.9

0.1

1.5

0.2

0.7

0.1

1.7

0.2

2.0

0.3

Total number of prey

331

–

1063

–

759

–

934

–

225

–

Prey diversity

1.24

1.28

1.18

1.12

1.16

Evenness

0.69

0.71

0.70

0.58

0.60

Median prey weight (g)

4.86

3.73

2.45

2.30

1.49

Interquartile range: 25–75%

22.93

26.74

30.40

24.19

21.9

Average prey weight (g)

14.93

17.29

19.61

16.1

14.8