Making a home for urban owls

As the weather cools, urban owls begin breeding early in the fall. "We allow members to take nest boxes they make back home and hang them in a nearby tree, giving Japanese scops owls, mountain scops owls, and other owls an opportunity to use them. If trainees do not take their nest boxes home, we hang them on trees in our partner elementary schools," said He Jing-han from Taiwan Environmental Information Association.

The installation of nest boxes provides temporary habitat to aid conservation, but the ultimate goal is to preserve more large trees and tree holes for owls to breed so that people and owls can coexist harmoniously in this urban environment.

以下為中文對照

  天氣涼了，都市的貓頭鷹提早在秋天開始牠們的繁殖週期。台灣環境資訊協會何京翰：「做好的貓頭鷹巢箱，會讓學員帶回去，在家附近的森林樹上掛著之後，讓鴒角鴞、黃嘴角鴞或其他的貓頭鷹有機會去使用，如果學員沒有帶回去的，我們會掛在我們合作的小學，掛在校園樹上，也是讓這些貓頭鷹有機會去使用。」

  巢箱的設置只是提供暫時棲地、補償保育作用，最終目標還是希望保留更多的大樹，有樹洞成為貓頭鷹繁殖的理想場所，讓人與貓頭鷹和諧共存於這個都市環境之中。

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