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- Habitat
needed
- Habitat
lost
- Habitat
maintenance
- Habitat
corridors
- Habitat
grants
- Nest
sites lost
- Nest site maintenace
- Nest Boxes
- Causes of
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- Habitat
lost
- The expansion
of industry and housing into the countryside has
taken away hunting grounds, nesting sites and
corridors. Even though open countryside may be
nearby the rough grassland barn owls need is also
disappearing.
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- The
introduction of more efficient and intensive land
use, larger fields worked right up to their
boundaries and the cutting or removal of
hedgerows has resulted in large scale loss of
rough grassland. This has been very advantagous
to land users but unfortunately this loss of
rough grassland has been to the disadvantage of
the barn owl.
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- Even on land
where good habitat remains barn owls can
disappear because they are isolated from from
other barn owls by large unbroken expanses of
lost habitat. This isolation makes it difficult
for young birds to disperse and maintain a stable
population.
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- Although
there are other factors which have caused the
decline of the barn owl, loss of habitat is
considered the most significant and is a major
impediment to the conservation of the species.
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