Viewer Discretion is Advised!!! The WILD Barn Owl Dad brought a still-alive rat to one of its nestlings. However, the rat escaped the nestling and found itself trapped inside the box. The rat's survival instincts were strong, and it managed to avoid being predated upon by the young Barn Owls. The male Barn Owl left the nest after providing the live prey, and it was not present to retrieve the escaped rat. After a while, Mom returned and discovered the trapped rat at first looked surprised and killed it. She then handed it to one of her nestlings, which swallowed the rodent whole. There is a thought that predators may sometimes provide live prey to their young, allowing for the developing critical predatory skills in the nestlings and ensuring their successful growth and survival. Overall, this incident highlights the complexity and dynamics of parental care behaviors in avian species and the importance of adaptation to changing circumstances.
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/ 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 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: [ Ссылка ]. 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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