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| | Factsheet: Building a bird nest box - Barn Owl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | With the loss of so many elms in recent years through disease, and so many old buildings through modernisation, nest boxes provide a real opportunity for this declining species to re-establish its population. |
 | | For internal use (barns and old buildings) the traditional tea chest can be ideally adapted; but for external use, good quality, heavy, waterproof board must be used. |
 | | The ideal site for a box is a dark corner on a beam in an undisturbed building near farmland, away from busy roads, and where there is permanent access for the owls through doors, windows or other such holes. |
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