Dissecting the Food Web

Provide OBDK Owl Pellets Kits . Students carefully dissect, identify bones with charts, and record prey species. Then, compare findings to different regions or seasons. Ask: What might these results…

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Provide OBDK Owl Pellets Kits. Students carefully dissect, identify bones with charts, and record prey species. Then, compare findings to different regions or seasons. Ask: What might these results tell us about local farming or weather patterns? This isn’t just dissection, it’s data storytelling.

Questions to ask

What might these results tell us about local farming or weather patterns?

Where it comes from

Some scientists collect soil samples or trap insects. Barn Owls leave behind pellets, and every pellet is a complete data set.

After eating, owls regurgitate compact bundles of fur, bone, and feathers. They do it instinctively, but unknowingly, they’re documenting their environment. Every pellet shows what species thrive nearby, what disappears, and what kind of balance the land holds.

“Every pellet is a story, of what thrived, what vanished, and how the land itself is changing.”

Read the blog post ↗ The Pellet Project: Tracing Diets from the Inside Out · 2025-11-07

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