Subject: owl pellets
Date: Apr 30 21:40:05 1997
From: "Tom Schooley" - dunlin at mail.tss.net



(snipped out) from Gary Kuiper's Lazuli Bunting note.
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> Does anyone know of a market for owl pellets? What are they worth? I have

> about 5 gal. collected last winter from sharpie's, Great horned and
> mostly Long eared owls.
>

Gary, Yes, there is a market for owl pellets and it is quite big. This is
the preferred method of teaching school kids biology with out dissecting a
creature. An article in the Wall Street Journal perhaps three years ago
discussed a man in Bellingham who collected owl pellets for the school
trade. He kept his sources secret. Sorry, but I don't remember the
specifics. You may have a bucket of gold in your garage!

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Tom Schooley
dunlin at mail.tss.net
Olympia WA