![]() End of year update and report on your adopted Owl.ĭid you know? Rescued Barn Owls looked after in captivity can sometimes live for 20 years or more! For less than 70p a week you can help us look after one of the resident rescued Barn Owls shown in the thumbnail pictures below.Twice yearly magazine “ Feedback“, packed with fascinating owl news, articles and photos.Personalised Adoption Certificate with a photograph of your Barn Owl.The story of your adopted Owl, with an end of year update.Twice yearly magazine ‘ Feedback‘, packed with fascinating owl news, articles and photos.Printable A4 colour poster of beautiful Barn Owls.Personalised Adoption Certificate with a photo of your Barn Owl.All in PDF format for you to download & print, which saves us printing and posting costs, enabling more of your donation to help Barn Owls. The Email Barn Owl Adoption Welcome Pack includes*:Įmail to anywhere in the world. Send or receive your Barn Owl Adoption Welcome Pack via email (in PDF format) to anywhere in the world, or by post to the UK only. > Make a one-off donation to cover one year > Set up a regular monthly or annual donation – Adoption automatically renews (unless you cancel). > Use Internet banking (BACS) – no card charges means more of your donation supports owls. ![]() How to talk to children about the Climate Crisis.Thinking of keeping a captive Barn Owl?.Barn Owl Directory – find local contacts.What to do if you find a young Tawny Owl.What to do if you find a young Barn Owl.Where’s the best place for your Barn Owl nestbox?.Barn Owl talks & environmental education.There are currently over 150 owls at Bodafon, half of which do not come in contact with the public because they have been badly treated by humans in the past. It has missed out on learning how to hunt for prey and so cannot be successfully returned to the wild. The sanctuary recently took charge of a young tawny owl which had been removed from its parents as a chick and has imprinted on humans. Generally, only 1-2% will survive the experience of living in captivity. The trust says there are only around 4,500 pairs of barn owls left in the wild, but that 120,000 were bred as pets last year. Barn owls, one of the most popular to be kept as pets because they are so beautiful, live for over 25 years in captivity." "Then they grow into adult owls which are very difficult to control unless you know how to do it properly. Pam said: "One of the major problems is that they look so wonderful as tiny chicks. ![]() ![]() In JK Rowling's best-selling Harry Potter books, wizards use the birds to carry their post, but a representative of the trust's Llandudno-based sanctuary stresses that owls do not make good pets. "But we do always stress that the majority would not be in captivity if they hadn't been taken as pets." It's always awfully nice to see for yourself what you're being asked to help conserve. "We'll be taking some of our owls to enable the children and explaining how the money for the adoption will be spent. Pam Broughton of the trust said: "We're inviting the children of Ysgol San Sior, Llandudno, on Monday to bring some of their unwanted and unappreciated Christmas presents to school to compare with the opportunity of adopting an owl as a unique gift that will put a smile on someone's face. The 'adopt an owl' programme gives the public a chance to donate money towards the upkeep of a particular owl at the sanctuary in exchange for a photo, certificate and newsletter. So instead of asking for one as a present this Christmas, the trust will be encouraging Llandudno primary school children to think of adopting one of their owls instead. India's minister for the environment has already announced a serious decline in his country's owl population and the North Wales Bird Trust say they have cared for over 100 former pet birds over the past nine years. This owl was handed over as his owners no longer wanted him as a petĪs the latest Harry Potter film hits the cinemas, owl sanctuaries fear another upsurge in the demand for these rare birds as pets. ![]()
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