Our Work
The Trust's work - live owl emergency calls
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History of the Barn Owl Trust
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Pictures of owl casualties in our care
Watch our three minute video
We now receive emergency calls from all over the UK and even some from abroad. How we deal with them depends on where the call originates from and what species it involves. Injured Barn Owls in Devon, Cornwall, West Somerset and West Dorset usually come straight to the Trust for immediate care. In the case of other owl species, some may come to the Trust and others passed on to other rehabilitators. Other sorts of birds are generally passed on, not because they are considered less important but because there are other rehabilitators more used to dealing with them (and we have more than enough to cope with already!).
The Trust's work - care and rehabilitation
Our sanctuary - a place of peaceful retreat
What to do if you find an injured owl
What to do if you find a dead Barn Owl
What to do if you find a very young owl
What to do if you find a young Tawny Owl
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What to do if you find a young Barn Owl
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Calls from other parts of the country are dealt with using a network of contacts that the Trust has gradually built up over time. We can often put people in touch with a local owl rehabilitator. These local contacts are a very important resource - they've helped us to deal with numerous owls we've never even seen.
There's a huge variation in the finding circumstances, traffic victims, young owls that have fallen from the nest, emaciated birds, and a whole host of others. In our experience, roughly one third of the birds brought in make a successful recovery and are released, one third die, and a third remain permanently disabled and spend the rest of their lives in our sanctuary or one of our local owl foster homes. Pages on this site include "What to do if you find an injured owl" and there are various PDF leaflets to read or print off. These can be found in the links to the right.
Rehabilitation Report
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Pictures of roads and road casualties
Pictures of hazards facing Barn Owls
Contacting us
