Our class has been learning about owl pellets and how to
study their contents. Students have
learned what they are, who produces pellets, and how they are produced. Many were surprised to learn that these
small, sausage-shaped objects do not pass through the intestine of birds and
are very different from droppings. These
pellets contain the undigested parts of the birds’ food and are coughed up, or
regurgitated. Owls can produce two or
sometimes three of these pellets every 24 hours. The students have extracted most of the solid
remains (bones, teeth, insect head parts, wing cases, seed husks, etc) and we
will begin to attempt
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| Take a look at this! |
identification of these parts this week.
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| Checking out the Bone Chart |
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| Look at what we found! |
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| Working together to find some bones |
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