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Barn Owl (Tyto alba) sitting in a tree with autumn colors in the background in Noord Brabant in the Netherlands

Barn Owl, tyto alba, Adult in flight, Normandy

3d Illustration of a barn owl poses isolated on a black background with clipping path.

A snowy owl takes off from a tree in the Sax-Zim bog of northeastern Minnesota

Portrait of a barn owl in a hole of the old barn. The typical white heart shaped face is clearly visible. For this kind of owls is common to living near humans.

Daytime front view close-up of a single majestic Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo Bubo) with spread wings taking off from a bark towards, and looking at, the camera - sky and trees in the background [series 2/3]

Closed up nocturnal bird in silhouette, adult Brown wood-owl, low angle view, half 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.

Barn owl sitting on the rock, looking at lens, clean green background, Czech Republic

A Great Horned Owl in captivity after being rescued following an injury.

Beautiful Barn owl (Tyto alba) sitting on a branch in an apple tree. Autumn background. Noord Brabant in the Netherlands.

White owl sitting on a stump in the dark. High-quality photo

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

Barn owls have a distinctive heart-shaped white face and dark eyes.

Burrowing Owl perched, La Pampa Province, Patagonia, Argentina.

The Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca) (Bubo scandiacus) is a large owl of the typical owl family Strigidae. The Snowy Owl was first classified in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus

European Barn Owl (Tyto Alba) in completely natural habitat, United Kingdom

$Closed up nocturnal bird, adult Brown wood-owl, uprisen angle view, front shot, in the night sitting on the branch of tropical tree in nature of tropical\nmoist montane forest, national park in high mountain of northern Thailand.$

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