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Giveacar to the Barn Owl Trust
The Barn Owl Trust teamed up with Giveacar in 2011, the UK’s largest car donation service. Since then over £1,000 has been raised to support our work. Giveacar arranges the free collection of any car, regardless of its condition, anywhere in the UK. Cars are either...
Breeding Season News, June 2014
June 2014 After a disastrous 2013 when the Barn Owl population hit a 'living memory' all-time low, we are delighted that this year things are looking up. Not only are the birds breeding earlier than usual, our annual monitoring visits have so far shown larger broods...
State of the UK Barn Owl population 2013
April 2014 We all know that 2013 was an extremely poor year for Barn Owls. This prompted the Barn Owl Trust to collate results from 21 independent Barn Owl monitoring groups around the UK and pull them together. The publication 'State Of The UK Barn Owl Population...
Tragic end to the most appalling year
November 2013 If you have a water trough, water butt, or even just a horse water bucket - a Barn Owl could easily drown in it. Please make it safe - it's very easy to do. Here's how: How to Prevent Drowning including instructions to make a purpose-made float for your...
Catastrophic year for Britain’s Barn Owls
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 trouble. A run of...
Barn Owl Survey – report UK Barn Owls online
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...
Weather Woe for Owls 2012
After a great start to the breeding season here in the South West our hopes for a bumper Barn Owl year have been knocked back yet again thanks to our unpredictable British weather. It has been 15 years since we’ve had a really good year for the birds in this part of...
The Oldest Wild British Barn Owl
Background The Bisham Barn Owl Group (BBOG) was set up in 2014 to study the Barn Owl population in South Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire. Law, Licensing & Research Programmes All study and research is carried out by BTO-licensed bird ringers. The data is...