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2006-09-22 17:13:37 · 13 answers · asked by amenafazel 1 in Environment

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The undigestible portion of an owl's diet, such as fur and bones. Since owl's cannot digest these parts of small mammals, owls must regurgitate the parts they can't digest. This mass, that is usually in an oval shaped pellet, is what is deemed as an 'owl pellet.'

2006-09-23 13:28:05 · answer #1 · answered by Hidden 4 · 0 0

Owl pellet is the remains of animals that the owl regurgitates because it can't digest it. Owl pellets are like the fur, bones, etc...of small animals. Kind of like the way a cat coughs up hair balls...well that's what owls do after they eat.

2006-09-22 17:18:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Owl Pellets are products of the Owl Pellet Corporation of Scranton, New York. These small devices, when planted in properly prepared ground, sprout forth and create fully grown Owls in just 5 minutes, complete with the ever popular 'who' Owl call. One can also obtain 'Kia' pellets, and 'Goofus' pellets from this company to provide a nice little community of lttle pellet-based life-forms for your entertainment. SO have yur front lawn fulled with tiny Kia's and goofuses and owls today, all courtesy of the Owl Pellet Corporation. Once you try them, you'll say they're.... Pelletlicious!

2006-09-22 17:21:25 · answer #3 · answered by john s 2 · 1 1

Since owls swallow small prey whole, the regurgitated pellets often contain perfect whole skulls of mice, voles and similar small mammals. If you can get some, they make for an interesting science class science project. They are odorless and quite clean, and trying to identify the various bones and other objects found in them can be very informative.

2006-09-22 18:42:12 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0 0

That's the owl's version of a hairball. It's all the undigestable matter (hair, bones) from the owl's prey that he regurgitates.

2006-09-22 17:17:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

It's the crap that an owl can't digest, so their throuts mush it all up, and then the owl chucks it up like a cat and a hairball

2006-09-22 17:22:00 · answer #6 · answered by Toto! 3 · 0 0

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A pellet, in ornithology, is the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate. The contents of a bird's pellet depend on its diet, but can include the exoskeletons of insects, indigestable plant matter, bones, fur, feathers, bills, claws, and teeth. In falconry, the pellet is called a casting.

The passing of pellets allows a bird to remove indigestable material from its proventriculus, or glandular stomach. In birds of prey, the regurgitation of pellets serves the bird's health in another way, by "scouring" parts of the digestive tract, including the gullet. Pellets are formed within six to ten hours of a meal in the bird's gizzard (muscular stomach).

Ornithologists may collect and analyze one species' pellets over a span of time to provide information on the seasonal variation in its eating habits. One advantage of collecting pellets is that it allows for the determination of diet without the killing and dissection of the bird. Pellets are found in different locations, depending on the species. In general, roosting and nesting sites are good places to look: for most hawks and owls, under coniferous trees; for Barn Owls, at the bases of cliffs or in barns and silos; for yet other species of owls, at their burrows or in marsh and field grasses.

Hawk and owl pellets are grey or brown, and range in shape from spherical to oblong or plug-shaped. In large birds, they are one to two inches long, and in songbirds, about half an inch. They are found in many other species, including grebes, herons, cormorants, gulls, terns, kingfishers, crows, jays, dippers, shrikes, swallows, and most shorebirds.

Ornithologists examining pellets have discovered unusual items in them—even bird bands that were once attached to a smaller species that was consumed by the predator bird. In the United States, screech owl pellets have contained bands from a Tufted Titmouse, Black-capped Chickadee, and American Goldfinch. In 1966, a Golden Eagle pellet in Oregon was found to contain a band placed on an American Wigeon four months earlier, and 1600 km (1000 miles) away in southern California.

2006-09-22 17:20:54 · answer #7 · answered by mallimalar_2000 7 · 2 0

It's something that falls out an owl's @$$.

2006-09-22 17:17:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

same thing as rabbit pellets-poop

2006-09-22 17:15:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

owl crap

2006-09-22 17:16:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

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