Those of you who attended the last WOS meeting and saw Ed Schulz's photos
of Snowy Owls and of the dissected SNOW pellet will be interested to know
that I finally got around to comparing it with skeletons in the Slater
Museum collection, with Molly Hukari's help.

The bones were definitely those of an American Coot.

Molly said it must have been an old coot to be caught by the owl.....I told
her I didn't appreciate her allusion.

Hope all you tweeters had a good holiday season. Sorry to be missing the
fun, but Life keeps getting in the way. I'm looking forward to tuning in in
May when I finish my spring class.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 206-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 206-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416
http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/museum.html