Advance notice -BTO Tawny Owl Calling Survey

[paul b]

Some information which will hopefully interest many CDNHS members:
"This survey starts on 20 September, and BTO will have online registration up and running from the beginning of September. Volunteers can take part in the survey from their garden, or any other green space, and the survey runs through to 31 March. It’s a very simple survey, asking volunteers to listen out just once a week, for 20 minutes, between sunset and midnight. They don’t have to take part every week, but we’d hope most volunteers can contribute at least six weeks. Volunteers that don’t hear Tawny Owls are also really important (we’re calling them a #zerohero on social media).
This work builds on information collected by 3,465 volunteers in 2005/06, who listened for Tawny Owls in their gardens. We found that the time of day, the moon cycle and weather influenced Tawny Owl calling behaviour. We’re keen to engage a lot more people this time round – the response we got at the Birdfair was very encouraging! Promotion of the survey is planned for late September around the theme of #heardanowl and we’ll have some online learning resources about owls available too."

Please reply on this thread if you want anymore info. Many Thanks.

PS did anyone take part in the 2005/6 survey? It would be interesting to know waht was found in the recording area.

[Mark Cookson]

Hi. I am interested in taking part in this. Cheers

[paul b]

Excellent, Mark-please keep an eye on the BTO page which apprently will be updated in the next few days with all the details

https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/project-owl

[paul b]

Registration is now open
https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/p ... ing-survey
It would be great to have as many forum readers and posters as possible involved in this survey as much to find out how well (or not) tawny owls are faring in our area. It would be useful to that end for sightings &/or soundings to be posted here as well as on TOCS, I think.

[Leonard Poxon]

Paul,

Unfortunately, none of the BTO survey tetrads are in our area.

It may be worth considering if we can set our own survey tetrads up and do a similiar survey in our area?

[paul b]

Len
You are quite right that the Tawny Owl Point Survey tetrads are all Blackpool way -but this is less specific TO Calling survey which anyone can do AFAIK anyway.
https://www.bto.org/sites/default/files ... _final.pdf

So you should be able to register and participate

[Leonard Poxon]

Thanks Paul, I have now registered.