Identification help - Sample Barn Owl Faecal dropping

[Linlivsey]

Hi
I hope someone can help I'd this from a Barn Owl faecal dropping. This is a wet mount preparation slide.

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Is it parasitic? Thankyou in advance

[Plasmid]

It looks inorganic, like a fiber of some sort. The color and the linear non segment structure leads me to believe so.

[D0c]

Could it be a piece of microplastic, I sometimes see this sort of ribbon in my pond water samples.

[Linlivsey]

Thank you. I am pleased it's not parasitic. She eats mice and chicks and has access to water in a bowl that's in an uncovered aviary. If it is a micro plastic , could it be from the air/water?

[Peter]

Hi Linlivsey,
It is probably from the digestive system of a mouse which has been chewing a synthetic garment for nesting material.
Peter.

[Placozoa]

I see them if I wipe a slide with my red cotton shirt.

[Peter]

Hi Placozoa,
It does not look like cotton to me, cotton tends to be a flattened twisted fiber.
Peter.

[Placozoa]

Hi Peter,
Maybe they made the shirt out of something else because, like, who's going to know?, right?. I suppose I should kick the protists off the stage and have a look.

Edit: had a look. Thats exactly what it is. The shirt is labelled cotton, thats all I know.