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RE: Birdhouse in action - Eurasian blue tit in caught on camera
Owls are awesome and it's sad that the barn owls died. I think they have limited the use of rat poison in Finland partially because the predatory animals which eat the rats tend to die, so they're trying to limit the use to professionals.
Also, the owl-birdhouses would be for a small owl species called "Boreal owl":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreal_owl
Have never heard of this species of Owl, but they are all fantastic in my eyes and always stop when I see one. I tried to get the warehouses to remove the rat poison and they wouldn't. One or two families of owls around and there would be no mice or rats.
That's also one of the reasons I want some owls there. Not because of rats, but there's mice and all kinds of rodents running around. Before our neighbor had a cat who kept the situation in the control, but now he's no more and the mice are running in the woods.
Boreal owl
The boreal owl (Aegolius funereus) is a small owl. In Europe, it is typically known as Tengmalm's owl after Swedish naturalist Peter Gustaf Tengmalm or, more rarely, Richardson's owl after Sir John Richardson. The scientific name is from Latin. The genus name Aegolius is a type of screech owl thought to be a bird of ill omen, and funereus means "funereal".This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl.