Barn Owls are highly faithful to the sites they use for roosting and breeding often occupying the same sites throughout the year. Where Barn Owls disappear from a well used site it's normally because they've died - not because they've moved. Sites that are occupied continuously for many years are not only used by individual resident owls, they are used by successive generations of owls. In fact, where Barn Owls disappear from an area altogether and years later new Barn Owls establish themselves, the sites they choose to use are very often exactly the same sites that the previous residents had occupied. Traditional nest sites not only appeal to individuals but seem to have a "universal" appeal to Barn Owls as a species. Although the reasons why Barn Owls choose the sites they use (and ignore other potential sites) are not fully understood, the protection of these special sites is obviously important.
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