Captive barn owls
Peter Owles with two barn owls, Poppa, in his hand, and Dizzy, nesting, in West Sussex. Since an amendment to the Wildlife Protection Act that makes a licence necessary before barn owls can be released into the wild, he has appealed repeatedly without result to the Department of the Environment to let them go Photograph: Andrew Hasson
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