Owls About This For A Survival Story?
The owl is a barn owl, similar to the one pictured above.
The owl, which was a chick when originally admitted to RSPCA Mallydams Wood in August 2004, was captured in order to have its identification ring read, on the banks of the River Rother in Iden, East Sussex. When the results of the ring identification came through, the Wildlife Centre was chuffed to learn that over 1,700 days after they released the bird into the wild, it was still going strong.
RSPCA Wildlife Officer at Mallydams, Richard Thompson said: “This bird has fulfilled all our aims of rehabilitation. It has survived in the wild for as long as we’d expect any Barn owl to, and I even believe the bird has bred in the wild. We have only ringed 29 Barn owls at Mallydams since 1999, so this is a significant and exciting discovery.”
