barn owls
Heart-faced night fliers
Barn owls are medium-sized owls with distinctive heart-shaped faces, pale plumage, and dark eyes.
They hunt rodents at night, often nesting in barns, church steeples, and other structures.
The name comes from their preference for such sheltered spaces: A pair of barn owls has been living in our hayloft for years.
- silent flightMovement through air unheard
- volesSmall burrowing rodents
- flightAerial journey by aircraft
- night hunterPredator active after sunset
- raptorsCarnivorous birds of prey
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- nocturnal animalsbats, raccoons, opossums, moths, fireflies
- owls
- loud screecherscockatoos, sirens, alarms, peacocks, car alarms
- farm birdsgeese, poultry farms, scarecrows
- lifelong matesswans, albatross, albatrosses, wolves, gibbons
- synanthropeshouse mice, house sparrows, brown rats, pigeons, cockroaches
hunting strategy
barn owlsperegrine falcons
Swift, diving hunting birds
hawks · eagles · falcons · red-tailed hawks · ospreys
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