LIVE Barn Owl

All the birds in our streams/videos are WILD and can enter and leave as they please. These videos are meant to document the lives of wild barn owls in order that we can learn more for both educational & research purposes and serve as an aid for the species conservation effort. We do not set up/ stage or intervene. All the videos are documenting wild barn owls. Help keep the channel going! Donate today to support more content like this: https://secured.israelgives.org/en/pa... _____________________________ 2025 1st egg: March 26, 2025 2nd egg: March 29 3rd egg: March 31 4th egg: April 2 5th egg: April 5 6th egg: April 7 7th egg: April 10 Hatching 1st nestling: April 26, 2025 2nd nestling: April 28, died May 17, lack of food 3rd nestling: May 1, died May 10 4th nestling: May 6, died, ate by #1 5th nestling: May 10 ____________________________________________ 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 Institute and the 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 decreased 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 a tiny 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 due to a lack of food. This may be hard to observe but this is nature and this is how barn owls have evolved. You can watch a lecture to given by Dr. Motti Charter to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lw2h.... Some people comment about cleanliness of barn owls nest due to YouTube 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 apart 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 awareness of beneficial insects that help keep the boxes clean. Please subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/chartergrou... The Cam was added by the Charter Group of Wildlife Ecology (The Shamir Research Institute and the Department of Geography and Environmental Science of the University of Haifa).