Re: Bird Droppings

[Sherry <sshadday at worldnet dot att dot net>]

Marvis,

We have a book we got from the WildBird Center in Layton called Bird
Tracks & Sign:  A guide to North American Species by Mark
Elbroch with Eleanor Marks.  It has a section called
droppings.

Judging from your description and the photos (yup) in the book, those
droppings may have been mourning doves.  They are round, the
size you mentioned, black on bottom and curled up edges with white on
top.  The book says they are easy to recognize, so there must not
too many birds with droppings like that?

Do you have mourning doves around there?

Sherry


At 01:33 PM 08/09/2004, Marvis Collett wrote:
> When an animal leaves a little pile
> I think it is called "skat."  I don't know the name for
> when a bird leaves a little pile.  Is there anything like a book of
> bird droppings like there is for animal droppings.
>
> Now to the point.  I have been finding piles about the size of a
> quarter which are black on one side (the side which touched the ground)
> and very white (typical of birds) on the top and maybe 1/2 inch
> deep.  It looks like bird droppings.  We had a small owl for
> two nights that we have not been able to locate since those nights. 
> Is it possible that these are droppings from an owl?  If it is a
> bird it would have to be a very large bird.  It is not a cat and not
> a racoon--I know those.  They are not owl pellets with which I am
> familiar.
>
> Any help? Should it be an owl I would stay up later with my
> flashlight!
>
> Marvis Collett
>
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