Activities: FFA

From Left to Right: Amanda Tosko, Nathan Milke, Tony Johnson, and Evan Buss dissect their owl pellets.

7th Grade Ag Dissects Owl Pellets

Students find bird, mole, shrew, and vole skeletons

by Tony Jensen

April 27, 2005

The 7th grade ag students learned about barn owls this week, including their habitat, diet, and feeding habits. In this information, they also learned about the way a barn owl digests its food.

On Wednesday, the students had the opportunity to dissect an owl pellet and learn what their barn owl digested the day before. Several skulls and skeletons of moles, voles, birds, and other rodents were found.

Daniel Finkner, Jesse Rohmeyer, Dustin Bowers, and Lindsay Buss finding different bones and skeletons in their pellet.

Some 7th graders were so excited about their experience that they brought home the bones and wanted to know how they could get owl pellets of their own.