IT is dusk, a short distance from the big IKEA in Croidon, and the holding of the barn appeared from her nest to chase. In pale light, male owl sits on a fence post to wipe the raw grass below. He has a crowded evening in the future: He is responsible for feeding a blasphemy in the next few weeks while she is interested in her chick. Owl jumps to the last fence. Suddenly, it dives into the grass below, and after one minute with bad rodents, it flies to the nest.
“I am still very excited,” says Tomus Braangoin, a local enthusiastic who watches the site. “It will do it most of the night,” he says.
Scrubland is surrounded by urban extension. Police warning and cars that are taking place in the past, and Hume industrial buildings are under the nearby security lights. central London It is located less than 10 miles (16 km), but the album here is not turbulent, and it is supported by the same diet of mice, mice, mice and other small animals such as their rural cousins. These lands have supported up to three breeding pairs in recent years.
Own views have risen sharply in the capital, as data monitoring data appears, as London residents are increasingly seen birds in green areas and rear gardens. There were only 25 viewers of the owl in 2010, but 347 monitored after a decade.
“People may not think that the album in London, but they are not really aware of the extent of the city,” says Picky Garden, partnership official at Greenspace Information, told GGL (Gigl), which records the environmental data of the capital.
All types of owl can be found in the UK-the barn, short ears, and few of them-in the capital at different points of the year. It can be difficult to monitor the shy, shy fishermen, with no reliable population surveys for many years. Viewing data is a measure of existence, instead of the size of the population, as it may also be driven by the filming of the citizen sciences applications and awareness campaigns such as Owl Jose Managed by London Wild Live Trust. Garden says that most London residents may not be far from an owl, even if they have never seen it. “The records of the album in London have increased a lot since about 2016,” she says.
The album album – known as the “Twit Two” album that males and females sang to each other – was found in green areas throughout the capital, overlapping the types of hollow trees and even known prey on green parrots. The scenes reports increased from 159 in 2010 to 894 in 2020.
Short and long ears album are rare winter visitors. The small album is found in the big gardens, similar to the barn album. However, the album in Barin was monitored in Nuting Hill, Dibmard and other places that may have been one time visits. Sometimes birds surprise the inhabitants of London: last month, journalist Ash Sarkar Publish a photo From one in northern London on social media under the slogan “WTF is the owl of the barn in Tottenham ??”.
The clear recovery reflects the mounted owl of a wider national trend, as species have a great recovery in recent years. Another comprehensive survey in the mid -1990s estimated that the population is about 4000 pairs of education in the United Kingdom, however British confidence of bird science (BTO) It is believed that it may now exceed 10,000. It is no longer listed as a threatening type in the United Kingdomand It takes advantage of the barn owners ’boxes and sufficient habitats to chase rodents. But the total owl is not in good health.
“With the exception of Barn Owl, they are not all brilliantly. There is a little decrease in all areas. It is more clear in the little owl, and it appears to be facing a really difficult time, linked to the decrease in insects,” says John Carter of BTO. “But the album album has turned a little from the angle. They are doing a really good job.”
Carter says the album is reasonably common in large gardens, city gardens and city areas. He says: “Wherever you live, if you have got some lush things, you will be a boam nearby.” “Because they sleep throughout the day and they are calm like anything at night when they fly around hunting, people do not really notice them unless they are directly out of the window.”
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