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Nestbox Fever!
Since returning to work on January 3rd the Nestbox Team have been working their socks off! There are five of them who work just 7 days a week between them. By the end of this week they will have built, packed and despatched 65 nestboxes! Here are Tuesday's boxes...
About our Wildlife Diary
The 26 acre Lennon Legacy Project was purchased in 2001 with a generous legacy from the late Vivien Lennon. This unique nature reserve includes part of the River Ashburn which runs through a woodland valley, on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, where the Barn Owl Trust...
Donation collection boxes
Do you have a Barn Owl Trust donation collection box? Or would you like one? Please let us know so that we can collect, replace or send you a box. Thank you – your support and generosity helps us to help Barn Owls!
Radio Tracking Research Published
Surprisingly little is known about what young Barn Owls do when they become independent, but collaborators from the Trust, Ambios Ltd and Lotek UK have produced original scientific research on their dispersal behaviour. By fitting radio-tags to young owls in their...
State of the UK Barn Owl Population 2020
Despite the pandemic and lockdown disruptions, many groups were able to monitor substantial numbers of Barn Owl nests and collectively contribute to a reliable impression of the 2020 breeding period. You can read the results, presented here in the State of the UK Barn...
HS2 – an extremely expensive way of killing Barn Owls
According to HS2’s own ‘experts’, if it’s allowed to go ahead, HS2 from London to Birmingham will “cause the loss of up to 80 breeding pairs of Barn Owls” - either through the demolition of nest sites or the very close proximity of trains killing the owls. “We are...
Report Your Barn Owl Sighting
Report Your Barn Owl SightingThousands of people have reported almost 20,000* Barn Owl sightings on our Barn Owl Survey UK website. (*as of 2024) Launched in 2013, the site provides the opportunity to log records of Barn Owls, dead or alive, anywhere in the UK. Users...
New report – ‘State of the UK Barn Owl Population’ 2018
The State of the UK Barn Owl Population 2018 report has just been published and distributed by email to all our UK conservation contacts. The results are based on the checking of 7,190 potential nest sites by 37 independent Barn Owl projects, and ringing groups. The...
No Reduction in Barn Owl Contamination
The latest results from the Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme show that the UK RODENTICIDE STEWARDSHIP REGIME, introduced in 2016/17, has not (yet) reduced the exposure of Barn Owls to Rat Poison. 90% of dead Barn Owls sent in by the public in 2017 contained one or...