owl pellets

tags: DonorsChoose2008, education, public school education, fund raising, evolution education, nature education, bird education Today's featured project is below the fold. This is a rural high-poverty school in North Carolina. The teacher is a bird watcher who also lives with pet birds, and she seeks to instill this love for birds into her students. In this proposal, she and her students will learn about the diets of owls by dissecting owl pellets and examining the remains of insects and bones from small animals that the owls cannot digest. "Whooo's in the Forest?" Part II I teach a…