Learn why you should definitely give a hoot about owl pellets — and what makes them a fascinating part of an owl's day-to-day life. The post All About Owl Pellets and Where to Find Them appeared ...

Although the owls in J.K. Rowling’s books are trusty companions, they are known for delivering mail, not owl pellets. Owls, like hawks, falcons and eagles, are birds of prey.

Owl pellet dissection is a valuable lesson for all ages because it informs us about how much energy it takes to keep an animal at the top of a food chain alive, and should remind us why – with ...

Bedolla learned about owl pellets in 2009, when he was working odd jobs on a farm after being laid off from a lawn care company. A woman had stopped by and asked permission to search for owl pellets.

Owl pellets are the indigestible remains of prey that owls consume. Owls typically swallow their prey whole or in large chunks. The digested soft tissue then finds its way into the intestine ...

so owl pellet is basically all the fur and the bones that an owl couldn’t digest. THEY HAVE WHAT’S CALLED A CROP. SO THAT’S LIKE AN ORGAN THAT ALLOWS OTHER BIRDS TO DIGEST THIS SORT OF THING.

These are regurgitated masses of hair and bone or feathers formed in the muscular stomach of an owl and cast up like a hairball after a meal.

Pellets Inc. recently took on one of its biggest challenges to date -- supplying pellets for "Owl Puke," a mass-produced children's book and dissection kit published this spring by Workman Publishing.

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.

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.