Barn Owl Nest Box

The dimensions given on the owl box diagram below are the minimum required size.

Barn owl nest box.

Human access and cleaning out. Avoid urban suburban dense forest and high mountain areas. Recycled plastic barn owl nest box 70 00. We are the makers and suppliers of a wide range of owl and wildlife boxes including barn owls tawny owls little owls kestrels bats dormice and garden birds.

Barn owl nest boxes in the uk ireland should be placed in open countryside in isolated trees or trees that overlook open habitat. Our owl boxes are superior quality easy to install and are maintenance free. About barn owl boxes. Poor design can be fatal.

Nest box criteria for assessing other plans or designs for interior barn owl boxes. This innovative nest box is contributing to highly effective natural rodent control programs while reducing the use of pesticides and aiding in barn owl conservation in numerous states. A typical barn owl nest box has a six inch entrance hole that is suitable for a barn owl but too small for a great horned owl and the hole should be approximately four inches above the floor of the box. One barn owl can cover over a mile and will eat between three and six mice each night approximately 2 000 mice yearly.

The owl box has a specially drilled backplate providing fixing holes above and below the nesting box and oversized holes to accommodate ropes for hauling the nesting box up the tree and locating it. No perch is necessary and adding one will only give. Too many barn owl box designs create a nest box that might be only 18 deep. Sites within 1 km of a motorway or other fast unscreened main road should be avoided due to the risk of road deaths.

How to put up barn owl boxes. Our barn owl box has been carefully designed and utilises integral tags on the panels which results in a robust and rigid owl box which still only weighs approx. In other countries different. While this size can attract a breeding pair keep in mind that barn owls produce an extraordinary number of young seven is quite common.

Give nature a helping hand by putting up a wildlife nesting box today. A family including chicks in one nest box can devour 8 000 mice in one year. If boxes are in the right habitat with sufficient prey available barn owls may nest in a range of box styles. One barn owl can cover an area of over a mile and will eat between three and six mice each night approximately 2 000 mice yearly.

We sell and ship owl nest boxes bird houses and bat boxes anywhere in the world. Barn owls which can be established in dense colonies eat high numbers of rodents and remain faithful to their nest sites have been shown to reduce rodent numbers at less cost than trapping or poisons.