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My wife, Linda, does most of our Christmas shopping, but occasionally I’m inspired to buy a few special gifts. A few weeks ago I introduced my grandson, five-year old Garek, to owl pellets. I had been ...

Liliana Antonio, 8, right, gets a hand from her mother, Mae Antonio of Rifton, N.Y., as she dissects an owl pellet at the Esopus Library in Port Ewen, N.Y., on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 15, 2024. The ...

Where do you look for owls? Up in the trees, right? But sometimes, if you see some folks with binoculars assiduously scanning the ground beneath a canopy of pines or Norway spruce, they too might be ...

Last week's moment of nature video featured owls on Plum Island off the Massachusetts coast. I've written about owls several times in this space, including snow owls and short-eared owls. Owls have ...

Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, a barn owl has just eaten a mouse. Twelve hours from now, give or take, it will regurgitate a compact mass of fur and bones known as an owl pellet. The pellet will ...

I love revisiting topics students covered in elementary school again in high school. Before I knew better, we used to raise and release monarch butterflies in my Advanced Placement Environmental ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - So are you smarter than a first grader? Not if you don’t know what owl pellets are. First grade students at Mathews Elementary School in Nixa got their first chance at ...

Sometimes learning can be downright stinky, and when the lesson of the day is dissecting owl pellets, you can take some pointers from students at Toni Morrison Elementary School in Lorain – don safety ...

Having lived with cats most of my life, I long ago got over the "ick" factor associated with things that animals cough up. My fluffy, ribbon-eating cat reveals his secret, forbidden predilection every ...

Which of the following best describes owl pellets? A. Owl vomit. B. Owl poop. C. Small pieces of chocolate shaped like owl eyes. D. Fossilized owl bones. The correct answer is A. The most famous owl ...

My wife, Linda, does most of our Christmas shopping, but occasionally I’m inspired to buy a few special gifts. A few weeks ago I introduced my grandson, five-year old Garek, to owl pellets. I had been ...