The World Owl Trust

Memberships - The World Owl Trust - Cumbria Click here to join the trust and gain access to this great recording and surveying tool https://www.owls.org/shop/memberships  Calling all Owl Lovers The World Owl Trust (WOT) is very excited to announce the launch of its new Owl surveying and monitoring App The WOT's App. The great app which is incl...

At the start of 2020 nobody could have predicted the way things were going to go. WOT were moving birds around and putting Breeding pairs together. We were building aviaries to house some of the Collection back in Cumbria ready for Members to start visiting again. We managed to squeeze a wedding into the diary as well and then Chaos struck. Th...

A slightly unusual occurrence happened last week when a Tengmalm's Owl (Aegolius funereus) dropped in on a garden in the Shetland Isles. These wonderful small Owls live all around the edge of the Arctic Circle in the Boreal Forests and this one has probably been blown in from Northern Europe, possibly paying a visit while it still has freedom ...

The World Owl Trust started Life as the British Owl Breeding and Release Scheme and even though the name has changed, the ethos has altered very little. We are still heavily involved in British Owl Conservation. Collecting Yearly Data from around 60 pairs of Barn Owls in Cumbria as well as the other 4 species of Native Owls and the European Eagle O...