The steps you can take to protect owls on your farm this year

Rats eat rodenticide and it takes them seven days to die. The barn owl eats them, while they are vulnerable, and over time, the rodenticide builds up in the barn owl’s liver. It also kills mice, shrews, insects, garden birds.

What steps can you take to protect owls on your farm this year?

Over recent decades, barn owl populations suffered widespread declines, and the bird is now a red-listed species
of conservation concern in Ireland.