Barn Owl Nest - Haifa, Israel

Shown in sharp 4K, wild barn owls nest inside this box in Haifa, in northern Israel, where the adults bring prey back through the night while their eggs and then their pale, fluffy chicks wait in the straw.

Barn owls are some of the best natural pest controllers around, and Israel has made the most of it. Around 3,000 nest boxes have been put up across the country's farmland to bring owls in to hunt rats and mice.

Over four years, permit applications for one common rodent poison fell by 50 to 90 percent in the project areas. Farmers from Jordan and the Palestinian territories have also joined, putting up boxes of their own.

Did You Know? A barn owl's heart-shaped face works like a satellite dish, funneling sound toward its ears so it can hunt in the dark.

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