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The noise was not one I expected to hear in the room where we house owls and hawks.
It sounded like a steam pipe ready to burst, or like a machine that had run amok. But the meaning was clear: stand back.
In the back of a cage, three baby barn owls were huddled together, warning off intruders with their bone-chilling hiss.
The babies were found in a nest in a chimney that was being cleaned.
Barn owls are one of the most wide spread of land birds, usually nesting in abandoned barns and other outbuildings. The adults have a distinctive, heart-shaped face. Like other raptors, they subsist mostly on small rodents.
These three babies will be sent on to a center that deals exclusively with raptors.