Herts Bird Club

Update 30 September 2018:

The Tawny Owl Calling Survey is now open. All you need to do is listen for Tawny Owls for 20 minutes each week, from 30 September to 31 March. The more weeks that you can listen the better - but you can do as many or as few weeks as you are able.

Sign up at:

Tawny Owl Calling Survey

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As part of Project Owl the BTO are looking for volunteers to take part in a couple of Tawny Owl surveys, which it’s hoped will run from this autumn to spring 2020.

The first of these is called the Tawny Owl Point Survey which starts this autumn from mid-August until mid-October. It requires volunteers to undertake two 20 minute long evening visits, within the two hours after sunset, to the middle of their allocated tetrad and to record any Tawny Owls heard. The intention is to repeat again next spring, from mid-February to mid-March and, funding permitting, again in autumn 2019/spring 2020.

Interested? Check out available squares, including many still available in Herts, and sign up for one at:

Tawny Owl Point Survey

It is hoped to cover all the priority tetrads.

There will also be a Tawny Owl Calling Survey. This is easily done from people’s gardens, or local green space, and entails spending 20 minutes listening for Tawny Owls on one evening per week from 30 September to 31 March.

Registration for this survey will be possible soon.