Life or Death: Barn Owl Parents' Desperate Attempt to Save Starving Nestlings from Pigeon

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A pigeon laid an egg at the entrance of a barn owl nest box where there were eight large barn owl nestlings. If the pigeon incubates the egg, what will happen? Will the barn owl attack it? Will the pigeons prevent the owl from entering and feed their eight nestlings? If the barn owl is unable to enter the box, its nestlings will die from starvation. Eventually, the barn owl parents arrived at the box during the early hours of the night. They tried multiple times to enter, sometimes bringing food, but were unable to do so. The situation looked grim for the barn owl nestlings who had not been fed since the previous night. Finally, at 0:41, one of the barn owl parents managed to push its way in and kick out the pigeons. This time, the barn owl nestlings were saved, but it was a close call. Click here to watch the LIVE Barn Owl/Pigeon/Myna Israel Cam 4:    • LIVE Barn Owl/Pigeon/Myna Israel Cam ...  

Pigeons and barn owls have a history, click here to see:
Part 1: “Must watch the dramatic ending.Wild pigeon lays egg in active barn owl next to 7barn owl    • Must watch the dramatic ending.Wild p...  
Part 2: "Pigeons do not give an owl hoot, Part 2: Revenge of the owl nestlings":    • Wild pigeons do not give an owl hoot,...  
Part 3: “Barn Owls Vs Pigeons: Nest number three, the final chapter of the trilogy”:    • WILD Barn Owls Vs Pigeons: Nest numbe...  
Part 4: The barn owl pigeon killer. The barn owl/ pigeon saga continues:    • Crazy, The Barn Owl Pigeon Killer. Th...  

These videos are meant to document the lives of wild barn owls in order that we can learn more for both educational & research purposes and serve as an aid for the species conservation effort. We do not set up/ stage or intervene. All the videos are documenting wild barn owls.

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Important notes about barn owls and these cams: All these nest boxes have been monitored as part of our research group’s scientific activities from the Shamir Research Institue and University of Haifa in Israel. All the owls/birds are wild and are free to come and go. We monitor around 200 nest boxes/ 30-60 pairs a year but do not interfere in the owls breeding. In general barn owl pair fledged on average 5 fledglings per pair (range 1- 11 fledglings) but their breeding success decrease in the breeding season with earlier pairs more successful than later pairs. We add cameras either before the pair lay eggs or only have all the nestlings hatched in order to not disturb the owls. So these CAMs are in fact a very small percentage of the overall pairs we monitor. We added the cams as part of own research to learn more about them but also in order that people could observe owls lives without disturbing them. Some later pairs sometimes fail do to a lack of food. This may be hard to observe but this is nature and this is how the barn owls have evolved. You can watch a lecture to given by Dr. Motti Charter to learn more:    • Everything you ever wanted to know ab...  .
Some people comment about cleanliness of barn owls nest due to YouTube cleaning nests out a lot. Barn Owls do not have any sense of smell and brings dead animals, some of them later rot and also regurgitates owl pellets inside the nests. Owls do not clean their nests and natural nest sites stay like this until they either fall a part or fill up. We do clean our nest once a year, so in fact our nest boxes are cleaner than natural ones. Cleaning boxes too much can cause pairs to abandon and also takes aware beneficial insects that help keep the boxes clean.


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