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Sunnylands Primary School, Carrickfergus
Easter Disco ๐Ÿฃ 10th April/ During the school day
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Dissecting Owl Pellets ๐Ÿฆ‰

12th Apr 2024
Dissecting Owl Pellets! ๐Ÿฆ‰

Today Primary 3 were scientists! ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ
We have been learning about owlโ€™s diets - they eat small birds, mice, rats, voles and shrews! ๐Ÿฆ‰
Owls donโ€™t have teeth, so they swallow their food whole! Whatever their body canโ€™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! ๐Ÿ’€