Viewer Discretion Advised. The barn owl and pigeons in this video are WILD and can enter and leave as they please. The pigeon nestlings parents left it alone during night and barn owl appeared, entered the nest box and killed the pigeon nestling. Barn owl bred in the box last spring and barn owl also killed pigeons a year ago (see here: [ Ссылка ]). This was sad indeed, nature is tough.

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.

We love nature and want to share some of the beautiful wildlife in Israel.

Click here to watch the LIVE Barn Owl/Pigeon/Myna Israel Cam 4: [ Ссылка ]

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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Pigeon Fall 2022
1st egg on Sept. 11, 2022
2nd egg on Sept. 13, 2022

Barn Owl 2022
1st egg: 10.5.2022
2nd egg: 12.5.2022
3rd egg: 14.5.2022
4th egg: 16.5.2022
5th egg: 19.5.2022
6th egg: 21.5.2022

Barn Owls Hatching
1st nestling: 10.6.2022 (Died to a lack of food)
2nd: 12.6.2022 (Died 13.7 due to a lack of food)
3rd: 16.6.2022 (Died 20.6)
4th: 19.6.2022 (Died 20.6)

Myna 2022
1st egg: 26.4.2022
2nd egg: 27.4
barn owl kicked hem out

Pigeons Spring 2022
1st egg on March 30, 2022
Myna kicked them out

Pigeon Second clutch 2021
1st egg on September 13, 2021
2nd egg on September 15, 2021
1st nestling hatched on October 1, 2021
2nd nestling hatched on October 2, 2021
First clutch
1st egg on August 10, 2021
2nd egg on August 12, 2021

Barn owls
This pair laid 6 eggs and out of the 45 pairs we monitored this year, this pair is the latest laying pair (laid eggs on May 10nd) in the Hula Valley we monitored. This is the second year in a row this box laid laid late. Typically, later laying pairs succeed less than earlier laying pair so there is a chance that not of all of the nestling will survive.

In response to suggestions which have been occasionally posted in the chat box, we would like to clarify that at the Charter Group of Wildlife Ecology, we use nest boxes (including this one) large enough to fledge very large broods - the largest successfully raised brood consisted of 11 barn owl fledglings.

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