What are owl pelets?

Answer 1

An owl pellet is a conglomeration of undigested material that the owl has regurgitated. This is not fecal material. It is regurgitated out of the beak. It is a consequence of a canivorous bird eating its prey whole. Hawks and falcons do the same thing.

These pellets look gray or brown and are an inch or two long (3-5 cm). They often contain a lot of hair and so a person may easily think it is the decayed remains of a dead mouse. It can include a mouse meal, but it is what remains after after the bird has finished digestion. There is clearly an evolutionary advantage to a process that extracts the high value nutrients which may represent a small fraction of the material in the meal. It saves the energy of processing indigestible material and saves the weight, perhaps the most important aspect for a bird.

A bird's pellet can be analysed to determine its diet and may the pellet may contain insects parts, indigestible plant matter, bones, fur, feathers, bills, claws, and teeth.

Answer 2

Owl pellets are simply owl droppings (poop.)

Answer 3

Owl Pellets are undigested fur, bones and or feathers that are coughed up out of the mouth.

Answer 4

An owl pellet is an owl's regurgitation. It has the bones and fur of the animals it ate in it, because owls cannot digest bones or fur.

Answer 5

They smell horrible, but the bones inside are cool.

Answer 6

The bones and indigestable objects all get clumped together in a pellet. The owl basically regurgitates the pellet.

Answer 7

They are not feces. This is food they regurgitated.