 The RSPCA release Tawney owls into the wild to radio track them |
The RSPCA has radio tagged a group of owls and released them back into the wild so they can be tracked up to the start of winter. Tawnies are the most common owl in East Anglia but are rarely sighted.
The owls released by the RSPCA after treatment, care or fostering will be tracked over the next two months.
The released owls could have come to the RSPCA as chicks and have been hand-reared but others have been rescued or were injured.
Eventually they are ready to go back into the wild and are released from secret and remote sites near suitable hunting grounds.
Remote sites
Kev Leighton from the RSPCA said: "We recently released a five month old bird that was found near Peterborough and called her 10 point 9 from her tag frequency.
"She joined other rescued owls at a remote site where they will spend two weeks getting to know the area.
"Within a fortnight the young owls will fly off but I can track them.
"Their chances of survival are about the same as other birds who have never been kept in captivity.
"The tags will fall off in a couple of months but meanwhile they'll be tracked every day so we'll know if they survived into winter."
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