The Owl Box Initiative

#BarnOwl conservation project. 🦉 Working with farmers and volunteers across #Hampshire #Dorset and #Wiltshire. Run by @Gameandwildlife

[The Owl Box Initiative @OwlBoxInit]

Barn Owl soft toy now available to purchase, with £5 from every sale helping to support the @OwlBoxInit...

...and its swing tag includes facts about #barnowl behaviour, habitat and diet!

https://t.co/ecV9PPl9fK

[The Owl Box Initiative @OwlBoxInit]

The Owl Box Initiative worked along-side farmers and land managers for the conservation of the #barnowl, as well as studying barn owl habitat preferences and diet.

Read the first paper published from this project... ⬇️

[GWCT Science @GWCTScience]

🚨NEW PAPER from #GWCT researchers...

Relationships between breeding #BarnOwls (Tyto alba), their prey, and agri-environment scheme habitats in lowland arable landscapes.

Read the paper and key findings here - https://t.co/hq96qrGq3s

[The Owl Box Initiative @OwlBoxInit]

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[matt prior @mattthesparrow]

I ringed these Barn Owls yesterday. It is the second latest brood I have ever ringed. The Gamekeeper found them in the strawstack last month. He has given them a little help by feeding them slivers of meat in wet weather. They are in superb condition and will fledge any day now.

[The Owl Box Initiative @OwlBoxInit]

A wonderful overview of various #owl species surveyed during @PARTRIDGE_NSR project monitoring on their lowland England demonstration site, an area where targeted measures have been implemented to retore #farmland biodiversity.

[PARTRIDGE network @PARTRIDGE_net]

Our demo sites aren't only attractive for partridges, hares, breeding & wintering birds. Come night-time, also #owls seem to benefit from our introduced measures. #Placementstudent @BethBro00547596 takes a closer look in this fascinating #storymap:
https://t.co/PKO9AKvAki

[Martin Down Farmer Supercluster @MDSuperCluster]

Some good news to start the week...
The @OwlBoxInit team from @Gameandwildlife have ringed several broods across the #FarmerClusters this season (under licence), here are the latest two Barn Owl chicks. We are excited to hear where they are next recorded when they fledge! @_BTO

[BirdWatch Ireland @BirdWatchIE]

100 Barn Owl nests in Cork!! An incedible & record-breaking milestone reached yesterday when we confimed the 100th nest in Cork!! We don't want to stop there, please report info on Barn Owls https://t.co/gAvLST8aQx Cork Barn Owl Survey supported by @CorkCoCo & @npwsBioData #LBAF

[matt prior @mattthesparrow]

My conservation work enables me to engage others with nature. This young lad and his family are from Ukraine and are being hosted in the UK by a local farmer. He loves birds so he and his family joined us seeing Barn Owls being ringed. It made my year seeing them so happy.

[Cranborne Estate @CranborneEstate]

@MDSuperCluster @OwlBoxInit @Gameandwildlife @GWCTScience This from last evening:

[The Owl Box Initiative @OwlBoxInit]

Fantastic to see @RyanABurrell..

..and to highlight the hard work by #volunteers across the 🇬🇧 monitoring #nest boxes/ringing young (under licence), to collect data on productivity, survival & movements, to help understand #conservation measures needed to support these species👏

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

Completed the late June visits for our Owl and Kestrel monitoring on the @MDSuperCluster and @WadersForReal farmer clusters last weekend. BO breeding stage is more spread out this year, kestrel chicks are fledging and we found a new LO nest site. Thanks for the help Flo Turner!

[Martin Down Farmer Supercluster @MDSuperCluster]

@OwlBoxInit continues to monitor our #owlbox nest boxes across @MDSuperCluster (conducted under licence @GWCTScience). Great result and one happy farming family report from 3 owl boxes, they have 1 box with 6 eggs 2 other boxes with 3 chicks each! #FarmingWithNature #Conservation

[Francis Buner @fbuner]

One of our next-door neighbours...
#Barnowl #naturerecovery #makespacefornature #FarmingwithNature
📷 #OlyBerriman

[TiCL (NO to a blue tick) @TiCLme]

One size fits owl

#thicktrunktuesday

@Hawkandowluk @arborsmarty @BarnOwlTrust @ActionOak @RaptorPersUK @TheTreeCouncil @MarkAvery @OwlBoxInit @ArbAssociation @Team4Nature @Eternaltree1 @britishbirds @WoodlandTrust

[Graham Denny @GrahamDenny9]

We have chicks and adults are working hard I don’t think it’s a vole year particularly ?lush growth , wind ,cold makes it difficult to catch them to ! @BarnOwlTrust @Gameandwildlife @DefraGovUK @JCaseNature @Mammal_Society @suffolkwildlife

[BORG-Owl & Raptor 🦉 @Borg_Owl_Raptor]

Corker of a morning over border just into Oxon on early season box checking. 3 active Barn Owl nests, 2 Kestrel nests and a single Little Owl nest. Lots to come back for in June when we hope the 21 eggs will have successfully hatched🤞👍🍾 see thread for exciting backstories …

[Martin Down Farmer Supercluster @MDSuperCluster]

We are so pleased and thankful to be a part of the @OwlBoxInit led by @Gameandwildlife across our Farmer Clusters

[GWCT Science @GWCTScience]

The @OwlBoxInit continues to monitor #barnowl nest boxes across various #FarmerClusters.

The first round of #nest box monitoring has begun, using a mounted GoPro to reduce disturbance.

(All nest box monitoring is conducted under licence)

[Barn Owl Trust @BarnOwlTrust]

Even if Barn Owls aren’t present at a site, it’s often easy to tell if they’ve been there 🕵️‍♀️
Signs of occupation include:
- Pellets
- Droppings
- Nest and roost debris
- Feathers
- Dead adults
- Dead owlets
- Smell
- Small mammal remains
👀 https://t.co/5QdPt9K6gr

[Graham Denny @GrahamDenny9]

Brilliant bit of footage don’t think the female would of won on her own or unguarded chicks ! @AllanKi22269349 @digiscoper @_BTO @JCaseNature @BarnOwlCentre

[Paul Bunyard @wildaboutimages]

Barn Owl hovering from last night, real time and slow motion ! very pleased with this shot (MF)

I’ve waited along time for a shot like this 👌🏻😍 #barnowl #sonyfx6 #ukwildlife #naturephotography #owls #sony200600 #slowmotion #barnowls #wildlfevideo #sonyalpha #sonyprofessional

[BORG-Owl & Raptor 🦉 @Borg_Owl_Raptor]

Been a busy winter - one of our favourite sessions was in March helping @bbowt Young Rangers project at College Lake Nature Reserve. Rangers had a go at making a Barn Owl box and we had great fun dissecting Barn Owl pellets looking for prey mammal skeletons 👍 great fun …