What’s on the menu for owls? Usually, deer and house mice with a side order of gophers and the occasional rat. Using tweezers, magnifying glasses and a lot of squinting, researchers at the Cache Creek ...

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 ...

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 ...

Award for the connection with the natural world. Melissanthi Sommers-Kontoleon (College of Science) Barn owls, like many other birds, produce pellets that contain all the undigested parts of their ...

Homeschooling parents find creative ways to fulfill dissection requirements for biology classes, including ordering supplies ...

Researchers found that digestion in hawks and owls can alter the results of isotopic analysis in pellets and droppings. Scientists are using isotopes to answer a surprising variety of questions about ...

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 ...

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 ...