Watch: Barn Owl's Cute Preening Break From Egg Incubation!

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Important notes about barn owls and these cams: All these nest boxes have been monitored as part of our research group’s scientific activities from the Shamir Research Institue and University of Haifa in Israel. All the owls/birds are wild and are free to come and go. We monitor around 200 nest boxes/ 30-60 pairs a year but do not interfere in the owls breeding. In general barn owl pair fledged on average 5 fledglings per pair (range 1- 11 fledglings) but their breeding success decrease in the breeding season with earlier pairs more successful than later pairs. We add cameras either before the pair lay eggs or only have all the nestlings hatched in order to not disturb the owls. So these CAMs are in fact a very small percentage of the overall pairs we monitor. We added the cams as part of own research to learn more about them but also in order that people could observe owls lives without disturbing them. Some later pairs sometimes fail do to a lack of food. This may be hard to observe but this is nature and this is how the barn owls have evolved. You can watch a lecture to given by Dr. Motti Charter to learn more: • Everything you ever wa... .
Some people comment about cleanliness of barn owls nest due to UA-cam cleaning nests out a lot. Barn Owls do not have any sense of smell and brings dead animals, some of them later rot and also regurgitates owl pellets inside the nests. Owls do not clean their nests and natural nest sites stay like this until they either fall a part or fill up. We do clean our nest once a year, so in fact our nest boxes are cleaner than natural ones. Cleaning boxes too much can cause pairs to abandon and also takes aware beneficial insects that help keep the boxes clean.
Barn Owls 2024
clutch
1st egg: March 6, 2024
2nd egg: March 8, 2024
3rd egg: March 11, 2024
4th egg: March 14, 2024
5th egg: March 16, 2024
6th egg: March 18, 2024
7th egg: March 20, 2024
8th egg: March 23, 2024
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Pigeons 2023
Eggs laid: August 24 and 26, 2023
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Barn Owls 2023
2nd clutch
1st egg on May 26, 2023
2nd egg on May 29, 2023
3rd egg on May 31, 2023
4th egg on June 2, 2023
5th egg on June 5, 2023
6th egg on June 8, 2023
Hatching:
1st Nestling: June 28, 2023 (killed by barn owl July 25)
2nd Nestling: July 1, 2023 (died July 19)
3rd Nestling: July 3, 2023 (died July 18)
4th Nestling: July 6, 2023 (died July 7)
5th Nestling: July 9, 2023 (died July 14)
1st clutch
1st egg on February 15, 2023
2nd egg on February 17, 2023
3rd egg on February 19, 2023
4th egg on February 22, 2023
5th egg on February 25, 2023
6th egg on February 27, 2023
7th egg on March 2, 2023
Date of hatching
1st nestling on March 17, 2023
2nd nestling on March 20, 2023
3rd nestling on March 22, 2023
4th nestling on March 25, 2023
5th nestling on March 28, 2023- Died April 3
6th nestling on March 30, 2023- Died April 5
7th nestling on April 2, 2023- Died April 4
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Pigeons 2022
2nd clutch
1st egg laid: Sept. 22, 2022
2nd egg: Sept. 24, 2022
1st clutch failed
1st egg laid: June 23, 2022
Attacked by barn owl: June 25, 2022 • WOW!!! Barn Owl Attack...
2nd egg: June 25, 2022 (was destroyed: 30.6.22)
Barn Owl 2022
This barn owl female acted like she was incubating for months but never laid eggs. Her mate fed her and would mate with her frequently. Two orphaned barn owls were brought to the Wildlife Hospital and need a home. In order to give the nestlings a home , we added two eggs on June 5, 2022 to the box the female started to incubate them. The following night we added two nestlings. The pair accepted them but unfortunately only brooded and did not feed. One nestling died fast while the other was taken out after less than a day to save it.
Pigeon Fall 2022
1st egg on September 20, 2022
Pigeon lays eggs on Spring 2021
2nd brood
1st egg on July 26, 2021
2nd egg on July 28,2021
1st brood
1st egg on June 28, 2021
2nd egg on June 30, 2021
Nest abandoned due to disturbance of barn owl fledgling and then Myna predated the last egg
Barn owl nest 2021:
Date of egg layingתאריך הטלת הביצים
1- 6/3/2021
2- 9/3
3- 11/3
4- 14/3
5- 19/3
Date of hatching תאריך הבקיעה
1- 7/4/2021
2- 9/4
3- 12/4
4- 15/4
5- 20/4
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