Barn owls are efficient and all-natural pest control
The barn owl is a highly effective predator that can easily hunt down and eat over a dozen rodents a night. A nesting pair of owls with say four juvenile owlets in a nest, they can eat anywhere from 36 to 70 rodents every evening. By erecting a barn owl nesting boxes atop 20-foot poles will attract the winged predators to rodent-plagued areas. The beauty of using wildlife to control rodent populations is poison don’t need to be used to control the rodent population. Owls will hunt down rats, mice, gophers, moles and voles. It can take up to a year for the owl boxes to be inhabited by one or more barn owls. An owl box cannot be built just anywhere; it needs to be near a large tree so the owlets have somewhere to safely learn to fly to. The nest also needs to be oriented away from the wind and due east so the bright daytime sun doesn’t beat down on the entrance. Owl boxes are cheap and easy to install only costing a couple hundred in materials.
