Barred Owl

Their diet consists mainly of small mammals, but this species is an opportunistic predator and is known to prey upon other small vertebrates such as birds, reptiles, and amphibians, as well as a variety of invertebrates.

Barred owls occasionally feed on snails and slugs, the latter especially in the Pacific Northwest.

Amphibians were considerably more popular in the diet in western part of range, comprising 10.5% of known studies against 4.4% in the east.