by barnowl1998 | Sep 20, 2013 | News Archive
September 2013 This young Barn Owl was the subject of a call to our Live Owl Emergency line on Friday. Recently fledged, she’d managed to get her legs tangled in baler twine and then get hooked onto barbed wire on an electricity pole only a short distance from the...
by barnowl1998 | Aug 20, 2013 | Barn Owl Trust News
August 2013 “The worst Barn Owl breeding season for over thirty years” is how 2013 is being described by conservationists throughout the UK and beyond. Voted Britain’s most popular farmland bird, this icon of the countryside is now in very serious...
by barnowl1998 | Jun 20, 2013 | News Archive
SGARs (Rat Poison) and Barn Owls – Let’s get the information right The Barn Owl Trust campaigns for better information about the effect of Rodenticides on wildlife. At least 76% of farms in the UK use Second Generation Anti-coagulant Rodenticides (SGARs). The...
by barnowl1998 | May 20, 2013 | Barn Owl Trust News
You can now report your Barn Owl sites and sightings (both dead and alive) anywhere in the UK, online. www.barnowlsurvey.org.uk is a project of the Barn Owl Trust launched on 1st May 2013. With an Identification Guide to check that the bird or the signs you saw really...
by barnowl1998 | Dec 31, 2012 | Wildlife Diary
December 2012 On the 12th, 6 Plymouth University students spent the morning searching for Brown Hairstreak eggs on the new Blackthorn growth along our roadside perimeter. This is apparently by far the best way of surveying for this rather retiring species, as adults...
