Is it true that Owls regurgitate? And do Hawks do too?

Question

We just had this big ball of fur and bird seeds plus some, what it looked like, bones on my moms car. But not one ball but two. So can you tell me if eather birds do that? If you can tell me all the info you can about it.

Answer 1

Most birds of prey regurgitate pellets. They look like big pellets of things they can't digest, like bones, feathers, and bits of gravel.

Answer 2

Yes, they regurgitate the indigestible parts of what they have eaten, such as bones, feathers, and fur.
Actually all birds do this to some extent. When a bird eats, it goes first into the crop, a kind of digestive pouch at the front of the neck. Sometimes you can see the bulge when the bird has eaten a lot. After being processed a while in the crop, the food is swallowed into the stomach and anything indigestible is regurgitated.
This is also how parent birds feed their young chicks; partially digested food is regurgitated into the chick's mouth.
I have even seen a bird regurgitate what was in its crop in order to eat something else more tasty!

Answer 3

I know for a fact owls cough up pellets, which are the parts of they prey they cannot digest, such as fur and bones. They have 2 stomachs in a sense, one for the stuff they can eat, which gets pooped out, and another, sorta "reserve" stomach, where they keep the fur, bones, etc. Once that is full, they cough up a pellet. The seeds may have been from a mouse, shrew, or other rodent it ate, and that was in that little critter's stomach. As far as I know, hawks do not do that. Owls swallow their prey hole, or rip it into a couple of pieces, but swallow those whole anyways. I don't think hawks eat the same way, thus, do not cough up pellets.

Answer 4

Those are pellets regurged up by a hawk or owl, both do it. If you take them apart, you will notice there are a lot of different types of hair, as well as different skeletons (rodents, reptiles, small birds, and amphibians). It is the indigestable parts of their meal.
Basically, you can see what they ate last night. It is pretty neat.

Most likely, the seeds are from the stomach of something they ate, though usually, raptors leave the stomach and intestines out of their food. If they are extremely hungry, I guess they could eat it. Another possibility is that it injested the seeds while finding stuff to build it's nest (it is that season again)
That is interesting that they are on your car- usually they regurg them from where they are roosting for the night.

Answer 5

I think all raptors do it. They're called raptor pellets and they contain all the undigestible parts of their prey. Quite possibly, this was a hawk who left behind the raptor pellets on your mom's car as hawks have been known to prey on small birds at bird feeders.

Answer 6

Duh, Sstupid!!!!