Juvenile Barn Owl makes it to North Wales

One of our this year's Barn Owl chicks was recovered 123 days after it was ringed, 297km away in North Wales.

This is by far the furthest juvenile dispersal recorded by our project.

 

Long-distance dispersal of a Barn Owl chick

One of a brood of six barn owl chicks fledged this year from a nest box near to Touchen End, Berkshire was retrapped 134 days later at Dungeness Bird Observatory, a distance of 134 km and the furthest recorded for a chick we have ringed.

This is the second chick from our area that has dispersed South-East to the Channel coast following one in 2024.