Who wants to see an owl? Who wants to hear an owl? Who wants to build homes for an owl? Who? Who? Who? One of the best ways to do that is to build an owl nesting box, and it's easier than you might ...

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2023. Who wants to see an owl? Who wants to hear an owl? Who wants to build homes for an owl? Who? Who? Who? One of the best ways to do that is to ...

One of the nesting boxes made by the Louth Barn Owl Project The Louth Barn Owl Project has issued an appeal to landowners in the county to provide sites for nesting boxes. The project, which was set ...

Baltinglass Tidy Towns and Men’s Shed members have collaborated with the Barn Owl Nest Box Group to produce two new indoor barn owl boxes that will be situated just outside the west Wicklow town.

Efforts are under way in the Conamara region of Galway to increase the population of barn owls. The barn owl is one of Ireland's most recognisable and admired birds. However, they are a species that ...

Farmers get payments for helping the barn owl — and may no longer need to use poison to control rats and mice on farms A measure to improve Barn Owl conservation, designed by BirdWatch Ireland and the ...

BARN owl chicks have successfully bred at a farm in Co Down just a year after nest boxes were set up. Three healthy chicks were discovered at Ballycruttle Farm, outside Downpatrick, last month and ...

Barn owls can be killed if they eat poisoned rats or mice — these birds are themselves one of the best means of natural rodent control A study by Birdwatch for Cork County Council shows that the barn ...

A ghost-like barn owl flying low over open farmland at dawn or dusk is one of Nature’s hold-your-breath sights. The iconic beauty Tyto alba is a brilliantly adapted nocturnal predator, its soft ...