Young Environmentalists do their bit for the Barn Owl
Kilkenny Advertiser - Kilkenny, Ireland
They also took a cross curricular approach to their project by carrying out scientific analysis on pellets produced by the barn owl ...

Wisdom theories afoul of truth
Powell River Peak
... Flocks of scolding, small birds are a good indicator of an owl roost. Owl pellets near a tree are another clue. Owls compress undigested food like fur and ...

Snow storm coming to Calabasas
Agoura Hills - Acorn,CA,USA
... Tucked amongst the rocky caves on the west side of the creek is a barn owl roost. Many times I have hunted through the piles of owl pellets and studied feathers...

Coyote encounters can be deadly for your pets
Thousand Oaks - Acorn,CA,USA
... Feathers and bones are later regurgitated in pellets. Cats are too heavy for an owl to pick ... Great horned and barn owls, western screech owls and ...

If these walls could talk
Corvallis Gazette Times - Corvallis,OR,USA
... "The original design and structure is still all intact," Jimenez said, making her way through the dark, dusty barn, past owl pellets and discarded farm ...

Found objects, noises evidence of barn owls
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... That's a barn owl egg. The pellets are the regurgitated remains of indigestible fur and bones from the owls' last meal. Barn owls ...

Conservation eyed for state's barn owls
Carlisle Sentinel - Carlisle,PA,USA
... To determine if a barn owl is on their property, people can look for owl pellets, dense regurgitated pellets of undigested fur and bone about one to two inches ...

Keep your owl eyes open
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... However, one- to two-inch "pellets" of undigested fur ... Long hissing shrieks, different from typical owl "hoots, also ... see or hear signs of a barn owl, Colt hopes ...

Barn owls are flying high again
Independent - London,England,UK
... Small, black pellets of their prey's fur and bones are regurgitated from the mouth. This happens about twice a day. * The barn owl's call is a spooky shriek ...

Not a lotta otter
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... had been a regular feast the night before - embedded in the pellets were the ... see a large female hunting over open ground as my first ever barn owl sighting was ...

Kids are for the birds January 28
Newszap Florida - FL,USA
... Tours popular barn owl tour Saturday afternoon will give kids (and adults who aren't squeamish!) the opportunity to dissect owl pellets, while talking about ... (read more)

The truth about food chain isn't always pretty
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
The pellets were harvested in New England from common barn owls. Each pellet is about a day's worth of food for an owl, which normally equals about six mice... (read more)

Visitation Academy forges a future while staying true to the past
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA
15 fifth-grade girls industriously, but gently, picked apart owl pellets looking for ... navy school blazers, talked over each other to explain that barn owls eat... (read more)

MOC plans homecoming
Goldsboro News Argus - Goldsboro,NC,USA
the MOC Singers led by Dr. Larry Oldham. They will also dissect barn owl pellets, listen to Bible stories and create works of art... (read more)

In Defense of the Sometimes Annoying Barn Owl
Berkeley Daily Planet - Berkeley, CA, USA
You can tell what a barn owl has been eating by teasing apart the pellets it coughs up and going through the skeletal remains. It ... (read more)

Walkers will get chance to meet owls
UNION-TRIBUNE COMMUNITY NEWS, SignOnSanDiego.com
I have a freezer full of mouse-sicles," she said with a laugh. "She goes in for bird checkups yearly and gets her nails and bill trimmed periodically. (read more)