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--90e6ba1efd3a694a1c04afd42b1a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 All, A few weeks ago, Ken McKenna dropped off a road-killed Great Horned Owl for me here at StFX. As is typical this time of year, I have a few high school students doing a skeleton reconstruction project under my guidance, and this group is currently prepping out the GHOW. (As an aside, I thawed the bird after Ken gave it to me and felt it all over, thinking that a road-kill would have broken bones...it felt surprisingly intact, and now that the students have the feathers off, I still can't see any problems. ) The "stomach" was huge, and when I cut it open with the students, I found a Jumping Mouse (not sure which species), a warbler and another bird, perhaps a forest thrush of some sort, and then a second Jumping Mouse. The warbler really surprised me because there's so little to a warbler, I didn't think a bird the size of a horned owl would bother. Always learning, I guess. There are enough feathers on the warbler still that I think it can be identified...my guess at this point is either Magnolia or Canada, but I'll let you know. Randy _________________________________ RF Lauff Way in the boonies of Antigonish County, NS. --90e6ba1efd3a694a1c04afd42b1a Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable All,<div><br></div><div>A few weeks ago, Ken McKenna dropped off a road-kil= led Great Horned Owl for me here at StFX. As is typical this time of year, = I have a few high school students doing a skeleton reconstruction project u= nder my guidance, and this group is currently prepping out the GHOW. (As an= aside, I thawed the bird after Ken gave it to me and felt it all over, thi= nking that a road-kill would have broken bones...it felt surprisingly intac= t, and now that the students have the feathers off, I still can't see a= ny problems. )</div> <div><br></div><div>The "stomach" was huge, and when I cut it ope= n with the students, I found a Jumping Mouse (not sure which species), a wa= rbler and another bird, perhaps a forest thrush of some sort, and then a se= cond Jumping Mouse. The warbler really surprised me because there's so = little to a warbler, I didn't think a bird the size of a horned owl wou= ld bother. Always learning, I guess. There are enough feathers on the warbl= er still that I think it can be identified...my guess at this point is eith= er Magnolia or Canada, but I'll let you know.</div> <div><br></div><div>Randy<br clear=3D"all">________________________________= _<br>RF Lauff<br>Way in the boonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS.<br> </div> --90e6ba1efd3a694a1c04afd42b1a--
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