BOISE • Find your new outdoor adventure — and perhaps a tax deduction — by collecting what owls spit up. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s MK Nature Center is low on its supply of owl pellets.

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 ...

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 ...

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 CLASS ...

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 got to rip apart ...

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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 ...

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 ...