In the last four years in the territory managed by the JSC “Latvijas valsts meži” (LVM) five artificial nests for Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) have been built. Aigars Kalvāns, LVM environmental expert, informs that birds have occupied four of them, furthermore, two nests are successful – one baby in each of them.

Eagle-owl is the largest owl species that live in Latvia, but hardly ever nest here. Naturally eagle-owl often nests on ground next to uprooted trees.

As the nests of these birds are in places accessible to predators, they are exposed and often are destroyed, that is why eagle-owls gladly live in nesting platforms that are suitable for them.