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

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) - nocturnal bird

Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum)

Face of the Eurasian eagle owl (bubo bubo) also known as European Eagle owl. The eagle-owl is from the higher classification of horned owls and is one of the largest species.

The Long-Eared Owl (Asio otus), also known as the Northern Long-Eared Owl, the Lesser Horned Owl, or Cat Owl

Male Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) perching on a deciduous tree.

The horned owl sits on a branch against the backdrop of a full moon rising on a pine forest at night.

$Taxon name: Powerful Owl (juvenile)\nTaxon scientific name: Ninox strenua\nLocation: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia$

Great Grey Owl in sweden Scandinavian forest. Aggressive Owl looking.

The Eurasian eagle-owl wild bird (Bubo bubo) is a species of eagle-owl that resides in much of Eurasia.

Little owl close-up portrait. British Wildlife Centre, Lingfield. They undertake rescue and breeding programmes for release into the wild.

It measures around 37 to 51.4 cm (male) and 39 to 54.4 cm (female). It weighs from 405 to 562 g (male) and from 331 to 670 g (female). It has a brown facial disk, white eyebrows around the beak. Dark brown back and tail with white transverse bands. It has a wide collar of the same color and the belly is yellowish in color (giving rise to its common name).

A Tawny Owl perching on a tree trunk in woodland scenic

Tawny Owls are mainly residents with established pairs probably never leaving their territories, and as nocturnal birds,they are more often heard than seen

Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) Cape Coral Florida USA

$L 59-73cm, WS 138-170cm.\nResident in mountains an forests, preferring areas with rocks, steep cliffs and mature trees (preferably conifers); often in rocky archipelagos. Scattered distribution, generally rare and local.\nNocturnal and partly crepuscular. Day roost in dense mature spruces or firs, or in cave or crevice.\nFood mammals (voles, rats, hedgehogs, hares) and birds (corvids, gulls, wildfowl).\nNests on inaccessible cliff-edge or less often on the ground by rock, uprooted tree or among boulders, exceptionally in abandoned raptor’s nest or n barn, abandoned factory, etc.\nIn spite of its size and its impressive claws is by and large a non-violent and retiring owl near its nest, and aggressive behaviour toward humans is rare.\n\nThis is a scarce owl in the eastern and Southern part of the Netherlands and is mostly breeding in abandoned Quarries.\n\nThis Picture is made at a Birds of Prey Farm near Lunteren (Gelderland, the Netherlands).$

Long Eared Owl, asio otus, Adult, Normandy in France

Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) the smallest owl in Europe, hiding behind leaves.

Closed up nocturnal bird in silhouette, adult Brown wood-owl, low angle view, side shot, in the night sitting on the branch of tropical tree in nature of tropical moist montane forest, national park in high mountain of northern Thailand.

Harry Potter real Snowy owl on the ground facing the camera in Alaska, MI, United States

Close up of a Eurasian Eagle Owl against a dark background.

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