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On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 10:04 AM, James Harcourt wrote:
> Does any one know what level of activity (human, stock, cats, etc)
> owls will tolerate in a barn? Specifically, can the amount of owl scat
> be used to argue for the abandonment of a barn?
Owls inhabit urban settings with no apparent ill effects. When I was
living in Bradford, England, two owls lived in a tree between my
apartment and the University with thousands of students and town folks
going by every day. They hooted at night and sat by the trunk during
the day. They hooted on those nights when there weren't people out and
in that neighborhood, elderly Pakistani men congregated to talk well
into the wee hours after the pubs shut and the students had all
migrated homeward.
Barn owls are common enough obviously. If there was another species not
normally using barns for habitat, it might do. There was certainly one
great big eared owl in an abandoned barn I surveyed in Northern Va. Not
a barn owl.
Lyle Browning
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