The barn owl parents accidently kill their nestlings, First the female kicked it when the male brought a rat and then the male step on it and kicked it yet again. The female went on to feed their other nestlings the rat for around an hour. During which time the nestling died. When the female saw it, she brought it over and ate it after making sure it was dead. This was sad indeed. Nature can be cruel. Luckily the parents still have 4 nestlings that are alive. The parents will have an easier to find enough prey time feeding 4 than 5.

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.

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/ 3060 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 wanted to know ab...  .
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 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.
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Fall 2022
Date of egg laying:
Egg 1 = Sept. 12, 2022
Egg 2 = Sept. 15, 2022
Egg 3 = Sept. 17, 2022
Egg 4 = Sept. 19, 2022
Egg 5 = Sept. 22, 2022
Date of nestling hatching:
1st nestling= Oct. 14, 2022
2nd nestling= Oct. 16, 2022
3rd nestling= Oct. 18, 2022
4th nestling= Oct. 20, 2022
5th nestling= Oct. 23, 2022
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Winter 2022
The pairs name: Male = "Dovey" | Female= "Lovey"
Date of egg laying:
Egg 1 = Jan 3, 2022
Egg 2 = Jan 5
Egg 3 = Jan 7
Egg 4 = Jan 9

Date nestlings hatched:
1st = Feb 2, named: Winter
2nd= Feb 4, named: Spring
3rd= Feb 6, named: Hurricane
4th= Feb 8, named: Sunshine
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