YSaC, Vol. 1617: The pea green boat smells pretty bad at this point.
2013 October 23
Owl pellets for biology teachers or scientists, etc
We have trees over a hundred years old with barn owls in them and we have saved quite a few coffee cans of full of barn owl pellets for biology teachers or scientists (or others) interested in studying them. If you are interested in getting some of these, please email me with your phone # and a message including how many you need & I will call you back. Thank you, Ruth
I just…
This is…
Who looks at owl poop and thinks, “I’d better save that, in case a biology teacher, scientist, or other wants to study it?” No really, who? Whoooo? Whoooooo?
OK, fine… I’ll take precisely 326.
Thanks, Jason!
Um, I see owl pellets and think I should save them for science. :}
As a matter of fact, I have a couple of jars full on the nature table right now!
Actually, this is all the more disturbing for the fact that Spark’ here knows the difference between raptor guano and digestive ejecta*–this is somewhat specialized knowledge.
That there are researchers keen to examine same is also pretty specialized, too.
So, I’m going to assume Spark’ just watched the ‘owl pellet’ Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, and has presumed the following equation: 0 + -2 = 4
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*Owl digestive systems concentrate bones and other less-digestible bits, which are then emetically voided. There are a couple–as in one or two–academic researchers who study what owls hunt upon by way of examining pellets.
Little known fact, owls actually do poop too. They do spit out the larger things like fur, bird beaks, and baby bunny bones in pellets.
Mmmm, baby bunny bones!
Baby Bunny Bones is the name of my Frightened Rabbit cover band.
That sounds like a great Halloween pie recipe !
And people think I’m strange for collecting refrigerator magnets.
No, Dave, that’s not the reason I think you’re strange. 8)
We think you’re strange because you collect owl-pellet refigerator magnets…..
Sparkie…if you have them in coffee cans, I hope you’re careful not to get them, you know, mixed up with your regular, uh, that is , the morning cuppa, oh, never mind….do what you want….
Ah, the aroma!
OH!!…THE HUMANITY!!!!!!
OH THE HUGE MANATEE! (Pretend I know how to attach pictures and posted a cute one of a huge manatee.)
Here you go, Tank:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7095/7264003050_85b069e58a_o.jpg
OH MY GOD!!!!!! That man is offerring his child up in sacrifice to the huge manatee god. Don’t do it!!!! Don’t hurt that precious child!!!!
Please……….!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t do it!!!!
Don’t give the huge Manatee God indigestion!!!!
Please……….!!!!!!!!!!
Here’s our local owl – he’s awesome. Meet Orville: https://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/OrvilleTheUrbanOwlet?__user=100002439687704
Orville The Urban Owlet.
There, I think I fixed your link for you.
The professors at Hogwarts are lucky. They have the Owlery right on campus, so they don’t have to rely on Craigslist weirdos to get owl pellets when they need them. Plus they know levitation spells, so they don’t even have to pick them up.
Not to go all Corey on you, but you can buy owl pellets on Amazon. They seem to be used primary as dissection projects for kids.
My next money making scheme! Sign me up!
1. Collect owl pellets
2. Recover from owl attack
3. …
4. Profit!
In Alaska we collect moose nuggets. But we glaze them and sell them to tourists.
Is it like a sugar glaze? …making it donut-y? I bet they’re DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!
Ewwwww! NO!
We dry them then shellac them to preserve them then sell them to tourists.
Earrings, necklaces, swizzle sticks are moose poopular… er most popular.
You can get ’em on eBay too. Corey out.
Owl pellets? Oh, is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Seriously, I am thinking this is some sort of “Owl Chow” as we used to feed our bunnehs Rabbit Chow (and they were in the form of pellets) all the time.
Also, my car has been parked directly under an owl perch and I can assure you, the cascade of white love covering the entire windshield did not resemble “pellets” in any form.
They poop too!
Yes, but what usually comes out is NOT in pellet form.
Mudsy, no, poop is not in pellet form. The pellets are what the owl unswallows of what it eats. It’s a very specialized raptor thing.
Pellets are the things too big to digest (see above reference to baby bunny bones); poop comes out the regular way.
Anybody thinking this person is just owlshit crazy? She has owls in her belfry? She’s just plain owlly?
People that imitate owls. But don’t feel bad, you didn’t know.
-Emo Philips
Bubba: There’s owl pellets and deer pellets and rabbit pellets and horse pellets and pellet guns and pellets for pellet guns and sheep pellets and pellet stoves and mouse pellets and moose pellets and llama pellets and zen pellets and wood pellets and hay pellets and paper pellets and grass pellets and flat nosed pellets and hollow point pellets and steel pellets and lead pellets and corn pellets and straw pellets and pellets inc. and salt pellets and…
Sparky seems to have missed a step in the owl upchuck business — the pellets should be sterilized before reuse. Who has a handy pizza oven?
Dan, would you like 326 pellets, or 326 cans? Because if you want the cans, you qualify for our “Ejecta Entrepreneur” program, which gets you one year of our “project of the month”. Each month, we’ll send you an heirloom quality art piece made by one of our gifted
daycare kidser, staffers. Think macaroni pictures with owl poop. Enjoy.Which comes with a Bonus! The Greatest (s)Hits album by Raptor Ejecta . . .
(no refunds or returns on bonus items).
“We have trees over a hundred years old with barn owls”
Obviously, owls that live in properly aged trees have superior pellets.
Our owl pellets
Are superior owl pellets
All other pellets are crap!
They make pet food for owls in pellet form?
Do they have Norwegian Blue flavor?
Ole Barney’s a picky eater.
I remember studying these when I was a kid taking a class at the science museum.. it IS a thing. And it’s not.. poop. It’s like a bundle of fur and bones that they spit out.
Yes, and you too can be hired as a pellet hunter/gatherer at the website my above link takes you to.
PARTY CLOWN FOR HIRE
I’ll perch up in your trees and regurgitate “stuff”. Hours of entertaining fun…..educationalistic too!!!!!!Extra charge if I clean up “pellets”. Your kids will love it!!!!!!!!
call WWW-WWW-WWWW.
p.s. no basements, please.
Dave, here’s a special Punchity Punch Punch just for you!
Good Morning, Owlets!
I think baby people should be called peoplets.
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