Habitat Creation and Conservation for Owls
Most owls depend heavily on short-tailed field voles for food. This small, vegetarian mammal eats the juicy stalks of grass and lives in the cover of grass that has been left to grow and fold, creating a warm, dark thatch that is out of the sight of predators (except those that can smell or hear the voles under the grass) A field that has been left unmanaged for 6 months or more can soon be populated by thousands of voles offering a rich source of food for birds of prey.
Insect eating owls like the little owl benefit from these vole habitats, where they may also eat grasshoppers, moths, crane fly and other insects, but little owls also will forage piles of rotting wood for beetles and compost heaps and muck piles for worms and bugs
