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A Barn Owl Eating Chicken in Huntersville, NC, United States

the barn owl has a heart shaped white face with a white chest with brown spots and brown wings

Barn Owl sitting on tree stump with wood mouse in its beak

Hunting Barn Owl with field vole perched in opening of old barn in the Cambridgeshire Fens

A North American Barn Owl flies in a demonstration at a bird rehabilitation site. This bird of prey was injured and rehabilitated. In flight the orange brown bird’s wings and tail appear nearly transparent, glowing in the sunlight. It has leather straps attached to its legs, called anklets and jesses.

Close Up of Sulawesi masked owl face (Tyto rosenbergii)

Barn owl in flight with wood mouse in its beak coming into land on tree stump

$Tyto alba literally means 'white owl', from the onomatopoeic Ancient Greek τυτώ (tytō, 'owl') – compare English \$

$An Owl's daily activity begins with preening, stretching, yawning and combing its head with its claws. The plumage is often ruffled up, and claws and toes are cleaned by nibbling with the beak. The Owl will then leave its roost, sometimes giving a call (especially in breeding season)\n\nLike most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.\n\nBarn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favored sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.$

Two Beautiful Barn owls (Tyto alba) on a branch. One barn owl has caught a mouse (prey). Noord Brabant in the Netherlands. Blue sky background.

Barn owl (Tyto alba) eating its prey on nature habitat

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this is a close up of a barn owl eating a rat

Portrait of a cute small white Owl eating a chicken foot with a white background

Barn owl (Tyto alba) flying with a mouse in his beak in Noord Brabant in the Netherlands.

barn owl bird in flight flying isolated on a black background

Taken in Costa Mesa, this fluffy and adorable barn owl spreads its wings to soar over the grassy lands.

Common Barn Owl (Tyto alba) isolated against a dark background.

A close-up of a barn owl eating its prey

The barn owl occurs throughout the Sonoran Desert and through much of the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is often found in conjunction with human habitation, roosting and nesting in barns, under bridges, in mine shafts, and in palm trees. It often nests in the undercuts of arroyos.

The western barn owl (Tyto alba) is a species of barn owl Tyto native to Europe, southwestern Asia, and Africa. It was formerly considered a subspecies group together with barn owls native to other parts of the world, but this classification was found to be paraphyletic with respect to some other members of the genus.

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