I'm fascinated by owl pellets, which contain various parts of an owl's prey that they cannot digest, including fur, feathers, teeth, bones, and more. Since owls don't have teeth and can't chew their ...

Mail the pellet, along with a submission form, to the Maine Owl Pellet Project, Dr. Zach Olson, University of New England, 11 Hills Beach Road, Biddeford, ME, 04005.

Eastern screech-owls, great horned owls, and barred owls are common and widespread. And by the way, you don’t have to be to an expert to dissect owl pellets with your kids or grandchildren.

By dissecting owl pellets, biologists can reconstruct what owls have been eating. I remember the first time I examined owl pellets I was mesmerized. By carefully tweezing apart the pellet, I found ...

Owl pellets, when first cast up, are generally more or less oval, slightly moist and odorless. The axiom is “if you can smell it, it isn’t a pellet.” ...

Because not everyone has an owl kind enough to leave a pellet on the back steps, pellets can be bought online for study. Barn-owl pellets sell for $2.50 on one website. A set of five pellets that ...

Not if you don’t know what owl pellets are. First grade students at Mathews Elementary School in Nixa got their first chance at dissection on Friday and it wasn’t a frog, earthworm or ...

The bones come from owl pellets that are regularly examined as part of a research project at the Preserve. (Jim Smith/Courtesy) By Jim Smith | Special to the Democrat October 29, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

Toni Morrison Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Brandi Guyer talks students through a project Nov. 1 of dissecting owl pellets, which are condensed pieces of indigestible owl meals.

Their survey of owl pellets in southeastern Bulgaria showed the Eurasian eagle owl has come to rely heavily on the three bush cricket species, especially on the endangered big-bellied glandular ...

Local Business The owl pellet economy: Meet the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurs who’ve devoted their lives to bird vomit Aug. 29, 2020 at 1:01 pm Updated Aug. 31, 2020 at 1:03 pm By Christopher ...