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Little owl food

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Little owl food

House sparrows are sometimes the prey of little owls. The owl was introduced to help curb the numbers of small birds like sparrows, but they more often eat lizards, mice and invertebrates.

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Christina Troup, Introduced land birds – House sparrows, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17175/little-owl-food (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Christina Troup, published 1 March 2009.