Specifications include, but are not limited to: : Reduce predators, with an emphasis on barn owls, in and around endangered seabird colonies, including Newell’s shearwater, Hawaiian petrel, and band-rumped storm-petrel, on the Northwest shores of Kauai. - • Suppress and remove Barn Owls using the most effective known hunting and trapping and/or innovative new techniques. • Document Barn Owl presence, habitat use, foraging behavior, localized response to removal of Barn Owl individuals (e.g. territory refill rate, fate of abandoned mate or nestlings etc) wherever possible, to increase efficacy of future hunting & trapping ; 1. A minimum of 48 nights hunting/trapping Barn Owls on the north shore of Kauai within the area defined on the map below (see Fig 1). 2. Collect data relevant to diet, nesting and foraging locations, and efficacy of of various hunting and trapping techiniques.