If you shop online you can raise donations for the Barn Owl Trust without it costing you a penny by signing up with ‘Give as you Live’ To date (November 2015) 149 folk have signed up to support our work and raised an amazing £2,256.74 by using ‘Give as you Live’ to shop at over […]
The two Little Owls received at the end of July from Vale Wildlife Hospital near Tewkesbury were released last night in our orchard. After being fitted with BTO (British Trust for Ornithology) rings on the 18th August the Owls were placed in one of our mobile aviaries in the orchard to acclimatise them to their […]
Things can change very quickly around here. As recently as the beginning of last week, we only had a single owl waiting for release. That’s all changed! We were asked by Vale Wildlife Rescue in Tewkesbury, if we could help with releasing some owls. While they do sterling work with regard to rescuing and rehabilitating […]
Earlier this month we asked you all to suggest a new name for Seymour the Barn Owl, as ‘he’ turned out to be female. As Seymour came to us as an owlet, we had to wait until it had matured a little to be sure of the sex. About 90% of Barn Owls can be […]
Last week saw the successful running of 4 days of our Barn Owl courses – 2 days of Barn Owl Ecology, Surveys and Signs (BOESS) and 2 days of Advanced Barn Owl Surveying and Mitigation (ABOSM). Whilst they are tiring for David and Matthew, who teach the courses, and Jo, who does all the organising, […]
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 scrapped, and a donation to the Trust made based […]
January 2014 The Barn Owl Trust launches its first e-petition. Did you know that most Barn Owls in the UK (95%) contain highly toxic rat poison? Although not all die as a direct result, there is little doubt that sub-lethal doses have contributed to the catastrophic decline in Barn Owl numbers. Rodenticides can be used […]
December 2013 The Government plans to build a high speed rail line known as High Speed 2 (HS2) linking a number of the UK’s major cities. Due to concerns over its impact on Barn Owls and the local environment, we submitted comments on the ecological content of the HS2 Draft Environmental Statement (ES) and associated […]
June 2013 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 Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme shows that a shocking 91% of Barn […]
You can now report your Barn Owl sites and sightings (both dead and alive) anywhere in the UK on-line. 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 were Barn Owl, you can report where, […]
