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All the birds in our streams/videos are WILD and can enter and leave as they please. 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. 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: 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. Click here to watch Barn Owl Florida Cam 2 live: Please subscribe to our channel: We are unsure if the same adults breed because the owls are not banded. ______________________________________________________________ Winter 2023 Date of egg laying: Egg 1 = Dec. 19, 2023 Egg 2 = Dec. 21, 2023 Egg 3 = Dec. 23, 2023 Egg 4 = Dec. 26, 2023 Egg 5 = Dec. 29, 2023 Date hatched Nest. 1 = Jan. 21, 2024 Nest. 2 = Jan. 22, 2024 Nest. 3 = Jan. 24, 2024 Nest. 4 = Jan. 26, 2024 Nest. 5 = Jan. 29, 2024 ______________________________________________________________ Summer 2023 Date of egg laying: Egg 1 = Sept. 1, 2023 Egg 2 = Sept. 3, 2023 Egg 3 = Sept. 5, 2023 Egg 4 = Sept. 8, 2023 Egg 5 = Sept. 10, 2023 Egg 6 = Sept. 13, 2023 Egg 7 = Sept. 15, 2023 Date hatched 1st nestling: Oct. 4, 2023 2nd nestling: Oct 6, 2023 3rd nestling: Oct. 8, 2023 4th nestling: Oct 10, 2023 (Died Oct 13 2023) 5th nestling: Oct 13, 2023 (Died Oct 18 2023) 6th nestling: Oct 17, 2023 (Died Oct 19 2023) ______________________________________________________________ Winter 2023 Date of egg laying: Egg 1 = Jan. 29, 2023 Egg 2 = Jan. 31, 2023 Egg 3 = Feb. 2, 2023 Egg 4 = Feb. 4, 2023 Egg 5 = Feb. 6, 2023 Egg 6 = Feb. 9, 2023 Date hatched 1st nestling: March 4, 2023 2nd hatching: March 5, 2023 3rd hatching: March 6, 2023 4th hatching: March 8, 2023 5th hatching: March 10, 2023- Died March 28 :( 6th hatching: March 12, 2023- Died March 19 :( ______________________________________________________________ Summer 2022 Date of egg laying: Egg 1 = Sept. 6, 2022 Egg 2 = Sept. 9, 2022 Egg 3 = Sept. 11, 2022 Egg 4 = Sept. 14, 2022 (did not hatch) Date hatched 1st nestling: Oct. 7. 2022 2nd nestling: Oct. 9. 2022 3rd nestling: Oct. 11 2022 ____________________________________________________________ Winter 2022 The pairs name: Male = “Nakni “ | Female= “Tayki“ Date of egg laying: Egg 1 = Jan 3, 2022 Egg 2 = Jan 5 Egg 3 = Jan 7 Egg 4 = Jan 9 Egg 5 = Jan 12 Egg 6= Jan 15 Date of Hatching 1st= Feb 4 2nd= Feb 6 3rd= Feb 7 4th= Feb 9 5th= Feb 11 6th= Feb 15- Died Feb. 23 ____________________________________________________________ The Cam is added in cooperation with the University of Florida and the Charter Group of Wildlife Ecology (The Shamir Research Institute and the Department of Geography and Environmental Science of the University of Haifa). Please read the Charter Group Birdcams live chat and moderation rules: #Live #barnowls #birdcams #Florida #live #owls #webcams #birds #wildlife #nature #nowplaying #Israel #UniversityofFlorida #Chartergroup #MottCharter
