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The American barn owl is a medium-sized, pale-coloured owl with long wings and a short, squarish tail. [3] However, the largest-bodied race of barn owl, T. f. furcata from Cuba and Jamaica, is also an island race, albeit being found on more sizeable islands with larger prey and few larger owls competing for dietary resources. [4]
Five species of barn owl are threatened, and some island species went extinct during the Holocene or earlier (e.g., Tyto pollens, known from the fossil record of Andros Island in the Bahamas, and possibly the basis for the mythical chickcharney). [3] Barn owls are mostly nocturnal and generally non-migratory, living in pairs or singly.
The barn owls (Tyto species, particularly Tyto alba) are the most widely distributed group of owls in the world. They are medium-sized owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces. They have long, strong legs with powerful talons. The term may be used to describe:
Puerto Rican barn owl (Tyto cavatica) found in Puerto Rico - may still have existed up to 1912; possibly a subspecies of the ashy-faced owl (Tyto glaucops) Noel's barn owl (Tyto noeli) found in Cuba; Rivero's barn owl (Tyto riveroi) found in Cuba; Cuban barn owl (Tyto sp.) found in Cuba; Hispaniolan barn owl (Tyto ostologa) found in Hispaniola
Barn owls live in open habitats across most of the lower 48 United States. Nest boxes have helped populations recover in areas where natural nest sites were scarce, according to the Cornell Lab of ...
Jul. 24—After their nests were destroyed, 15 orphaned baby barn owls from central Washington found their new home in Washington State University's Horticulture Center. The owls were left ...
Golden masked owl: Tyto aurantia (Salvadori, 1881) 7 Australian masked owl: Tyto novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) 8 Sulawesi masked owl: Tyto rosenbergii (Schlegel, 1866) 9 Red owl: Tyto soumagnei (Grandidier, A, 1878) 10 Western barn owl: Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769) 11 American barn owl: Tyto furcata (Temminck, 1827) 12 Eastern barn owl: Tyto ...
Barred owl. Typical or "true" owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk. Eastern screech-owl, Megascops asio; Great horned owl, Bubo virginianus; Snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus