Researchers found that digestion in hawks and owls can alter the results of isotopic analysis in pellets and droppings.

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati found that digestion in hawks and owls can alter the results of isotopic analysis in pellets and droppings. The study was published in the journal ...

Owl attempts to eat a turtle Owls have a unique way of eating. They eat and digest what they can from their prey and then regurgitate pellets that look a bit like the lint from a clothes dryer.

Life From Leeds United to the Irish woods: Following the trail of the long-eared owl, Ireland’s ‘night witch’ Despite ominous links, owls are spectacular raptors which do much to help clean ...

Like other owls, great horneds cough up felty pills that contain the bones, fur and other parts of their meals. Scientists and schoolkids pick those pellets apart to see what owls have eaten. A ...

KALISPELL — You have to pay your dues. That's what Mat Seidensticker told himself as he spent the day sifting through owl puke, looking for tiny skulls.

Most owls produce one-inch to two-inch pellets that are byproducts of their eating habits. Smaller creatures such as mice and small birds are swallowed whole by the owl during a night of hunting.

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra discussed her own evolution as a biologist — from dissecting owl pellets as a child to running a lab at Harvard — during morning ...

Nick Davis shows a couple of gopher skulls he pulled from owl pellets near one of his barn owl boxes. The owls eat the rodents whole and then regurgitate the fur and bones in the form of a pellet.