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Family: Strigidae
Gray, hairy, oblong chunk about 5 cm long. "mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate. The contents of a bird's pellet depend on its diet, but can include the exoskeletons of insects, indigestible plant matter, bones, fur, feathers, bills, claws, and teeth. In falconry, the pellet is called a casting." - Wikipedia
Lake Poway park under an Owl box, high up in a Gum tree.
"The passing of pellets allows a bird to remove indigestible material from its proventriculus, or glandular stomach. In birds of prey, the regurgitation of pellets serves the bird's health in another way, by "scouring" parts of the digestive tract, including the gullet. Pellets are formed within six to ten hours of a meal in the bird's gizzard (muscular stomach)." - Wikipedia
Spotted on Mar 21, 2012
Submitted on Mar 21, 2012
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