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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.

A pellet from a burrowing owl. Burrowing owls are smaller than many other owls, so they eat more insects than most. It takes about 50 to 75 calories every 24 hours to keep a burrowing owl alive.

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.” ...

Owls and other birds of prey cough up anything unusable. If you’ve been to a science museum, you may have dissected one of the products of these digestive outbursts, known as owl pellets.

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The pellet will contain a near-perfect skeleton of the devoured rodent and a treasure trove of data for researchers, providing insights on the owl, its prey and the environment in which it lives.

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 ...

GRADE SCHOOL. BUT APPARENTLY IT WAS A VERY POPULAR EXPERIMENT OF PUTTING THROUGH THE OWL PELLETS AND SEARCHING FOR BONES TO GO TO IT. WE DID NOT DO THAT. OH, OKAY. BUT IF YOU’VE NEVER DONE THIS ...

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.

Barn owls, which regurgitate roughly one large pellet a day, are the most prolific barfers. Their pellets often contain wood rat, Botta’s pocket gopher and California vole bones.