Results
This project has resulted in successfully acquiring and establishing three different breeding pairs of barn owls, the young of which will be released in hacking areas. In
2004, three eggs successfully hatched from the breeding pair in the hacking pen at the zoo, which Mark plans to release in the spring and summer of 2005. The National
Audubon Society has encouraged programs like this, since similar efforts to put up nests in Delaware, New Jersey, and Florida have had great success. In Pennsylvania, over
100 barn owl boxes have been erected in adjacent counties by the Moraine Preservation Fund, which was independent of Mark’s project, but led to a cooperative effort.