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Pellets Barn Owl Pellet Experiment

Help me give my students 100 small barn owl pellets to discover what owls eat!

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

We are the Business Robotics team at our high school. Our goal is to assist fellow students of the school in learning about STEM and further their understanding of biology. Being part of the business team also means that we visit other schools and inform them about what we have learned. Help our students have a clearer look and a further understanding about the world we all live in.

In this activity, students dissect owl pellets and reconstruct the skeletons of animals inside to discover what the owls have been eating.

When you first see an owl pellet, you will probably think that it is feces, but this pellet has been regurgitated from the other end, the owl's beak.

Owls are predators and usually swallow and eat their prey whole, or a least in large chunks complete with bones, fur, and feathers. Prey species can include rodents, insects, lizards, rabbits, bats, snakes & birds, to name a few. In the owl's stomach, the soft matter is digested, but the fur and bones are regurgitated back out through the mouth in a little package, or pellet.

Pellets are important for scientific study because they give us a picture of what the owl eats, when, and in what frequency. The last time you read in some book what an animal eats, did you wonder how some scientist was able to learn that information? It would be too difficult to follow the animal around and watch it eat, especially at night when most owls feed. This means we have to examine things like pellets.

Help our students become excited and interested in science!

Ms. Tam
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pellets Barn Owl Pellet, Small (Pack of 20) • Amazon Business $63.95 5 $319.75

Materials cost

$319.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $29.26

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$383.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.73

Total project goal

$451.54

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