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ANSZKi J., Sárdi B., & Széles L. G.: Feeding habits of the stone marten 233

Fig. 1: Geographic location of the stone marten samples collected in villages (yellow circles) and farms (red circles) in Somogy county (Hungary).

Locations: 1 - Somogysimonyi, 2 - Nemesvid, 3 - Csákány, 4 - Nagyszakácsi, 5 - Somogyvár, 6 - Polány, 7 - Fels mocsolád, 8 - Kisgyalán, 9 - Somogyvár, 10 - Somogyjád,

11 - Memyeszentmiklós and 12 - Mernye

Catholic church (n=145), Csákány, Catholic church (n=80), Nagyszakácsi, Catholic church (n=84), Somogyvár, Catholic church (n= 106), Polány, Lutheran church (n=101), Fels mocsolád. granary (n=80) and Kisgyalán, granary (n=203). These villages have orchards with various fruit trees and domestic animals - especially poultry — kept in house yards. Study locations in outside farms: Somogyvár, stock-yard and granary (n=104), Somogyjád-Magyaróvölgy, stock-yard (n=lll), Memyeszentmiklós, granary (n=82) and Memye, granary (n=52). The distribution of the different habitat types around farms was as follows (mean): plough land 72,6%, building and garden 8.4%, grassland 4.2%, forest 8.2% and wetland 6.6%.

To study the possible interaction between the stone marten and the bam owl, sample collection was also performed on further eight localities, such as Andormajor, granary (n=12), Mesztegny , Catholic church (n=0), Buzsák, Catholic church (n=0), Buzsák, stock-yard (n=10), Öreglak, chapel (n=36), Ecseny, Evangelic church (n=0), Fels mocsolád, Catholic church (n=0), Gamás (n=33). The sample size was under 50 in these localities, therefore no diet analysis was made. Owl pellet numbers origined from J.J. Purger (Purger 2008 and Purger LJ. pers. data).

Sample collection and analysis

The feeding habits of stone martens were investigated by analysis of scats, using standard procedure (Jedrzejewska and Jedrzejewski 1998). Prey determination was performed by microscope on the basis of feather, bone, dentition and hair characteristics (e.g. März 1972, Újhelyi 1989, Teerink 1991, Brown et al. 1993, and own collections).