Owl Pellet Study Guide

Name _______________________ Date ____/____/____

1. What size is your pellet?

My pellet is _______ centimeters long and _______ centimeters wide.

2. Look at the outside of your pellet. What clues about the food of owls do you see?__________________________________________________________________

3. How many skulls (or pairs of jaw bones) did you find?_______________________

4. How many kinds of animals did you find in your pellet? ____________________

5. What kinds of animals did you find? ______________________________________

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Thinking Things!

If one owl spits out one pellet a day, how many animals might the owl eat in one week? How many in one month? ...in one year? ...in five years?

What might happen if there were no owls?


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