Sonoma Mountain Ecology Notes

Celebrating and Caring for the Land

A Pellet

Many species of birds regurgitate indigestible bits of their prey after some hours of being worked over in the gizzard (muscular stomach). The juicy digestible bits pass through the gut while bones, fur, teeth, scales, feathers and exoskeletons are eliminated before having to pass all the way through the tiny belly-works.

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