by barnowl1998 | Feb 15, 2022 | Barn Owl Trust News
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...
by barnowl1998 | May 13, 2021 | Barn Owl Trust News
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...
by botdavid | Jan 22, 2020 | Barn Owl Trust News
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...
by barnowl1998 | Jan 8, 2019 | Barn Owl Trust News
Report Your Barn Owl Sighting Thousands 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...
by botdavid | Jan 8, 2019 | Barn Owl Trust News
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...
by Alan Lewis | Oct 29, 2018 | Barn Owl Trust News
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...
