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Barn Owl
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Eats
Carnivorous, most of the time eat small mammals and rarely birds.
Lives
Found worldwide over 7 continents. Nest and roost in cavities, abandoned barns, buildings, and dense trees. Habitats often include marshes, deserts, grasslands, or agricultural fields.
Behavior
They are monogamous, meaning that they have a single life partner. They are usually quiet, but they have loud scary vocalizations, shrieks, and screeches. They have adapted to achieve silent flight, their feathers on their wings are shaped like a comb and trailing edge with fringe, these funnel air smoothly over the wing and dampening the sound.
Description
Barn owls have a distinctive heart-shaped face that is light in color, making them easily recognizable. Their bodies are covered in a mix of pale, tawny, and dark brown feathers, often with spots and speckles on their wings and back. This mottled appearance helps them camouflage in their natural habitats, allowing them to blend in with their surroundings. One interesting feature of barn owls is their asymmetrical ears, with one ear positioned higher than the other on each side of their head. This unique ear arrangement helps them pinpoint exactly where sounds are coming from. Their hearing is so precise that they can even hunt in complete darkness!
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How can I Help?
Barn owls can eat almost 1,500 small mammals a year, this keeps pest populations low. To bring more barn owls onto your land, you can build roosting boxes, they prefer them around barns, trees, or simply a post away from human activity.
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