Mrs. Busse’s, Mrs. Lazinski’s and Mrs. Dutka’s second grade ornithologists just completed their owl pellet dissection over the last two weeks. Here is what they found:
Busse – 8 pellets dissected; 18 mice, no shrews, no moles and no birds
Lazinski – 10 pellets dissected; 19 mice, 1 shrew, no moles and no birds
Dutka – 9 pellets dissected; 20 mice, 4 shrews, no moles and no birds
You can look at the other schools where I have visited this spring to see what the ornithologists there have found by looking through previous entries in my blog (there is additional information on owl ecology and ornithology studies in these blog entries, as well as the owl pellet data). I do have a few more owl ecology classes coming up before the end of school, so there will be more data add in the near future. Here to date, is an overview of what we’ve found in our owl pellet dissections in my previous school visits this year.
Including the pellets dissected at Ostrander Elementary our total tally is:
212 pellets dissected; 447 mice, 32 shrews, 6 moles, 6 birds
The average number of animals eaten per pellet is 2.3 animals.
Check this blog for more owl pellet data as I complete my ecologist-in-residence programs through to the end of the school year.
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