Barn Owl road deaths - can you help?

[JeffH]

Here in East Anglia the Hawk and Owl Trust is carrying out a pilot study into the use of noise emitting sensors to try to deflect Owls (and other wildlife) away from roads, so as to try reduce the number of Barn Owl road deaths. For more details please see here - Hawk and Owl Trust | About | Pilot study targets road deaths

To assist in the study and to help identify blackspots, the Trust are asking people to report roadside findings of dead Barn Owls or other birds of prey -

"If you see a barn owl or other bird of prey casualty on any road verge in Norfolk please report your sightings to the Hawk and Owl Trust via the Trust’s website Hawk and Owl Trust | Home or write to Sculthorpe Moor Community Nature Reserve, Turf Moor Road, Sculthorpe, Fakenham, Norfolk, NR21 9GN. Please do not cause a danger to yourself or other road users by stopping to look at wildlife casualties whilst driving and please do not send the actual carcases to the Trust.

Although the Trust is particularly interested in Norfolk casualties, findings from roads in other counties will help map areas of the UK where it might be useful to site deflectors, if they prove successful."

So please bear this in mind when you're out and about and report any such findings. Thanks

Jeff
(Schedule 1 Licence holder for Kingfishers, Barn Owls and Avocets)