Owl Pellets

By Kalie GanemPeriod 9

#6

Introduction

Procedure1.2

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My assembled skeleton

This is what a vole looks like

Data tables

Graphs

Barn owl food webSun

Plants

Insects

Shrew

Pocket gopher

vole

mouse

rat

bird

mole

Barn owl

Raccoon

Conclusion

Self Reflections on the lab

• I thought this lab was very informative. I learned a lot about not only the owl, but also its prey. It was very challenging, thought, to find all the bones and assemble the skeleton because you couldn’t always find the bones in your pellet.

Barn owl catching prey

Some of the Barn owl’s prey

Citing for food web• “Food webs and food chains.” Enchanted learning. Enchanted

learning, n.d. Web. 6 May 2011. <http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ subjects/ foodchain/>.

• “mole.” enchanted learning. enchanted learning, n.d. Web. 6 May 2011. <http:///www.enchantedlearning.com/ subjects/ mammals/ mole/ Moleprintout.shtml>.

• “mouse.” Wikipedia. wikipedia, 5 May 2011. Web. 6 May 2011. <http:///en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Mouse>.

• “Shrew.” Exchange city/ the learning exchange. Earth works, n.d. Web. 6 May 2011. <http://www.lx.org/ pdfs/ shrew.pdf>.

• “What pocket gophers eat.” Pocket gophers and pocket gopher control. Klimenko, n.d. Web. 6 May 2011. <http://www.crittergetteronline.com/ Pgophers/ pgoeat.html>.

• “What Voles eat.” vole and vole control. Klimenko, n.d. Web. 6 May 2011. <http://www.crittergetteronline.com/ Voles/ voleeat.html>.