Barn Owl Trust Nest Box

Our design is 11 ft3 with with nearly 6 ft2 of floor space.

Barn owl trust nest box. Barn owls can breed from 1 year of age and often nest inside farm buildings tree cavities and sometimes in holes in rock faces or straw stacks. Human access and cleaning out. Owl nest box minimum standards the barn owl trust a leading authority on barn owls recommends increasing their nest box dimensions by 50 for the american barn owl equating to a floor dimension of 30 x 24 5 ft2 and a minimum of 10 ft3 for a box that is 24 deep.

Nest box criteria for assessing other plans or designs for interior barn owl boxes. Although the owls have been severely affected by the loss of mature trees and agricultural buildings fortunately barn owls take readily to nest boxes and since 2006 suffolk wildlife trust has helped transform the fortunes of barn owl in suffolk through an intensive nest box programme. Poor design can be fatal.

Barn owl nest boxes come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can be adapted where required but basically consist of three types. This barn owl nest box has been designed with the barn owl trust and constructed from fsc certified exterior grade plywood making it suitable for use both inside buildings such as barns or outside. The nest box has a sturdy front platform for owlets to exercise on and a generous front canopy to protect the entrance and platform from bad weather.

Our barn owl box has been carefully designed and utilises integral tags on the panels which results in a robust and rigid owl box which still only weighs approx. The owl box has a specially drilled backplate providing fixing holes above and below the nesting box and oversized holes to accommodate ropes for hauling the nesting box up the tree and locating it. Or you can simply buy a barn owl trust nestbox for inside a building.

Barn owl nest boxes in the uk ireland should be placed in open countryside in isolated trees or trees that overlook open habitat. The dimensions given on the owl box diagram below are the minimum required size. Avoid urban suburban dense forest and high mountain areas.

Sites within 1 km of a motorway or other fast unscreened main road should be avoided due to the risk of road deaths. How to put up barn owl boxes.

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