Barn Owl Box Construction Plans. Boxes can be placed in a variety of structures, including barns, silos, granaries, grain elevators, and church steeples, or mounted on a free-standing. Before erecting a Barn Owl box, please ensure that you have properly assessed the risks involved, particularly with regard to working at height.
Barn owls are cavity-nesting birds, raising their young in the natural cavities of old trees, in abandoned woodpeckers holes or even on rocky outcroppings. Barn owls want homes that are cozy, warm and safe. We know from recognizing their vocalizations that we have at least three species It's unlikely however that we have the ubiquitous Barn Owl (Tyto alba), due to our densely forested areas, which is unfortunate, as they.
Barn owls generally prefer open fields and meadows with a plentiful supply of small animals.
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How and when to clean it out. The barn owl's primary prey are voles and to a lesser extent mice. Barn Owls are very sensitive during the early phases of nesting (April-May) and will abandon a nest if disturbed.