Bank Street School for Children

New York, NY

Owl Pellet Dissection

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video by Michael Wilkinson

We dissected owl pellets and found the bones and skulls of animals the barn owls had eaten. We found starling, vole, mouse, and shrew skulls. In our pellets voles were the most common. We think this means that voles are the most common prey where these owls live.

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