SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - So are you smarter than a first grader? Not if you don’t know what owl pellets are. First grade students at Mathews Elementary School in Nixa got their first chance at ...

Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, a barn owl has just eaten a mouse. Twelve hours from now, give or take, it will regurgitate a compact mass of fur and bones known as an owl pellet. The pellet ...

Barn owls, which regurgitate roughly one large pellet a day, are the most prolific barfers. Their pellets often contain wood rat, Botta’s pocket gopher and California vole bones.