Access Keys:

 
 
Sunnylands Primary School, Carrickfergus

Dissecting Owl Pellets! 🦉

27th Mar 2025
Today Primary 3 were scientists! 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬
We have been learning about an owl’s diet - they eat small birds, mice, rats, voles and shrews! 🦉
Owls don’t have teeth, so they swallow their food whole! Whatever their body can’t use (like bones, fur and feathers) is packed into an owl pellet and coughed up! 🔍

We dissected an owl pellet to work out what our owl had eaten! We used our bone comparison sheet to match the bones to the animal. It was lots of fun! 💀