A Co Down farmer is celebrating after one of Northern Ireland’s rarest birds successfully bred on his land for the third year in a row. Barn owl numbers are down to fewer than 30 breeding pairs in the ...

The barn owl was cleaned and cared for over the course of three days A barn owl is "recovering well" after becoming trapped in a molasses bucket. The young bird was rescued after becoming coated in ...

A County Down farmer is celebrating the arrival of four new barn owl chicks after 10 years of conservation work on his land to increase numbers. There are currently fewer than 30 breeding pairs of ...

BARN owl chicks have successfully bred at a farm in Co Down just a year after nest boxes were set up. Three healthy chicks were discovered at Ballycruttle Farm, outside Downpatrick, last month and ...

Bird experts say they have found the oldest barn owl ever recorded in Britain and Ireland. The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) said the owl, originally ringed as a chick in Nottinghamshire in 2007 ...

Oct. 5 (UPI) --A barn owl was rescued from a sticky situation in Britain when the avian found itself trapped in a bucket of molasses. Kirsteen Atkinson Annear said she was house sitting at a farm near ...

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