White Breasted Barn Owl (Tyto alba alba)
Introduction
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White Breasted Barn Owl (Tyto alba alba)
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 9 Jul 2014
White Breasted Barn Owl (Tyto alba alba) At the Bodafon Farm Park Image Once a familiar sight in the British countryside, it was welcomed by farmers as a pair of barn owls and their young could eat a thousand rodents between them during the three month breeding season. As modern farming methods have led to the destruction of hedgerows, meadowland and field headlands - with consequent loss of habitats for prey species - and as old farm buildings have been demolished or converted, the Barn Owl population has crashed to a dangerously low level.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.318222
Longitude
-3.79716