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 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 ...

Barn owl conservationists in Sussex say they are worried about a drop in population numbers as they aim to find out what has ...

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.

I had been browsing through the www.acornnaturalist.com website when I noticed it offered owl pellets for dissection. Then I noticed the “Owl Pellet Investigation Field Biology Kit.” It included three ...

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.

None had ever seen an owl in the act of producing the pellet. So, of course, I showed them. This is perhaps my favorite part of the whole lesson: there is a video that shows a young barred owl ...

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.

Dissecting owl pellets is a science activity that almost every fourth-grader in Nebraska gets to complete. You may have even heard your students come home from school and mention they ...

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.