Study

Successful releases of captive barn owls

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This study is summarised as evidence for the following.

Action Category

Foster eggs or chicks of owls with wild conspecifics

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  1. Foster eggs or chicks of owls with wild conspecifics

    A replicated study in Utah, USA (Marti & Wagner 1980), found that eight of ten barn owl Tyto alba chicks fostered to wild owl pairs in 1978 fledged successfully, with one male being confirmed as breeding in 1979, 60 km from the fledging site. Six young (all of which fledged) were placed in existing broods, with either one or two chicks in each, and four chicks were used to replace a clutch of four infertile eggs (two of these later died after falling from the nest).

     

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