Wow, from 6 breeding pairs to over 160!
Keep 'em coming!
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If you find an injured owl:
Note your exact location so the owl can be released back where it came from. Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialist to get correct advice and immediate assistance.
Minimize stress for the owl. If you can catch it, toss a towel or sweater over it and get it in a cardboard box or pet carrier. It should have room to be comfortable but not so much it can panic and injure itself. If you can’t catch it, keep people and animals away until help can come.
Do not give food or water! If you feed them the wrong thing or give them water improperly, you can accidentally kill them. It can also cause problems if they require anesthesia once help arrives, complicating procedures and costing valuable time.
If it is a baby owl, and it looks safe and uninjured, leave it be. Time on the ground is part of their growing up. They can fly to some extent and climb trees. If animals or people are nearby, put it up on a branch so it’s safe. If it’s injured, follow the above advice.
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There's a new owl in the tree outside my bedroom window. I'm taking that as a good thing for the local ecosystem, rather than wondering why it's living in a suburban housing estate.
Congrats, now your estate provides free pest services!
Hopefully they do not have little plastic containers around the buildings.
They are advertised as pet safe, but that means your pet can't get in it. Cats and birds who eat the critters that have dined and dashed get the contents passed along to them.
The article only talks about installing nest boxes along wildlife corridors. Was that really all it took??
Owls don't build nests, so they need one provided, often by properly damaged trees or leftover/taken from other animals. Other than that, as long as they can hunt successfully, they've got all they need.
Old trees often get removed by people as they can be a hazard, for land development, or just not being aesthetically pleasing, but they provide homes and/or meals for many types of living things.
Humans often inadvertently attract rodents, but we're not so good at replacing the structures, so people putting up houses designed to replicate those spaces for owls and other birds, bats, or what have you gives them that other necessary resource.
Will putting an owl house up get you an owl? It depends. Many don't go too far from where they are born, but if you give it a few breeding seasons and have food to support them, one may eventually hatch, grow up, and seek out territory of its own and find that inviting structure you put up and decide to call that home.