Barn Owl

Ghostly pale and normally strictly nocturnal barn owls are silent predators of the night world.

Barn owl. The tytoninae or tyto owls including the common barn owl and the phodilinae or bay owls. Its crown nape back and upper wings are orangey buff and grey delicately marked with white spots. In north america barn owls prefer open grassland and meadow habitats or sparsely forested areas including marshes and agricultural regions as well as urban and suburban areas. The beautiful barn owl is perhaps our most loved owl.

We aim to keep the entire collection in stock and will endeavour to ship your choice from the catalogue as soon as possible. Lanky with a whitish face chest and belly and buffy upperparts this owl roosts in hidden quiet places during the day. It is almost impossible to tell if a barn owl is male or female just seeing it fly overhead. With its ghostly appearance rasping shrieks and habit of roosting in such places as church belfries this bird has attracted much superstition.

By night they hunt on buoyant wingbeats in open fields and meadows. Barn owl habitat and distribution. The sibley ahlquist taxonomy unites the caprimulgiformes with the owl order. Look out for it flying low over fields and hedgerows at dawn and dusk.

With heart shaped face buff back and wings and pure white underparts the barn owl is a distinctive and much loved countryside bird. With its distinctive heart shaped face pure white feathers and ghostly silent flight it s easy to identify. Discovered in its daytime retreat the barn owl bobs its head and weaves back and forth peering at the intruder. However it is really a good omen for farmers who find it in their barns for it preys chiefly on mice and rats.

The throat breast and belly are white below with some dark spots. Females often have darker brown feathers around the rim of the facial disc as well as darker bars on the tail and small black spots on the chest and underside of the wings. You can find them by listening for their eerie raspy calls quite unlike the hoots of other owls. Widely distributed across the uk and indeed the world this bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as ddt in the 1950s and 60s.

Barn owls are the most common owl species in the world and can be found on every continent except antarctica though they are scarce in many areas. Welcome to the owl barn gift collection established in 1995 the owl barn gift catalogue is a mail order business based in norfolk england which serves regular customers throughout the uk. It is also known as the common barn owl to distinguish it from the other species in its family tytonidae which forms one of the two main lineages of living owls the other being the typical owls strigidae. The barn owl is a very pale medium sized owl with a distinctive white heart shaped face black eyes and a pale bill.

However a close look may give you a clue.