Growing Barn Owls in my Garden

From a childhood obsession growing up in the Lake District, through youthful passion in captive breeding Barn Owls to becoming a full-fledged conservationist involved with monitoring breeding success of wild Barn Owls, this little book charts the career of Paul Hackney. An engaging and informative account of a life devoted to one species of bird and the many ramifications this devotion has led to.

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