Lacking a crop, everything goes straight to its stomach. The gizzard protects against the indigestible stuff. Some owls live underground. Native to the Southwest, burrowing owls are small owls ...

After snatching up a rodent or fellow bird, they swallow their prey whole, squeezing together the indigestible bits in their gizzard and discarding what’s called an “owl pellet.” Or in other ...

The only problem is digestive juices in their stomachs aren’t strong enough to break down bones and fur, so instead, all that tough stuff gets compressed into pellets inside the owl’s gizzard ...