Glenshaw man hopes homeless owls snap up boxes
Date: 08/25/2011
From the Pittsburgh Tribune Review: They don't make barns like they used to, and that's been a big problem for a species of farm bird native to Pennsylvania.
Farmers have drifted away from the sturdy wooden barns that used to dot the countryside from Pittsburgh to Somerset County, causing the population of round-faced barn owls to dwindle in the last few decades.
Mark Browning, an animal trainer for the Pittsburgh Zoo, believes his plastic, pole-mounted Barn Owl Box is a solution to the loud-screeching birds' homeless problem.
"There's so much good they can do for farms," says Browning, 61. "They need our help."
