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The Everyday Life of a Barn Owl: Sex, Food & Fighting | Discover Wildlife | Robert E Fuller

4,513 views · Published 5 June 2018 · 4:13 · Indexed 21 October 2026

Channel: Robert E Fuller · 2018 · Pets & Animals

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Watch this fascinating episode from inside a barn owl nest. This short clip gives you an intimate glimpse of the life of a male barn owl and involves, sex, food and fighting! It begins with the female barn owl sitting on eggs. In flies the male with a gift for her. He has been out hunting and has caught a young rat. This is quite a substantial meal for a brooding owl, but she isn't interested. We've learned from watching this pair before that when the male brings her an offering he expects to mate her in return. Perhaps that's why she is reluctant! The poor dejected male keeps trying to engage her, pushing the rat towards her in ever more pleading gestures. Eventually he gives up, mates her anyway and leaves. The female meanwhile endures his conjugal rights and as soon as he has gone starts to look for somewhere safe to stash her gift. But keep watching to see what happens next. See the female start in alarm. I've switched to the camera outside the nest so you can see the male perched at the entrance just as he is dive-bombed by a tawny owl! Throughout the drama she stands hissing. He successfully fights off the intruder whilst she screams in alarm, her beak full of the forgotten rat. Then she quickly stashes the food and rushes back to sit on her eggs. Fascinating!

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