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Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) Cape Coral Florida USA

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

owlet with feathers of a prey before his mouth, looks like a face mask

An owl in flight with wings fully extended.

Yawning tawny owl (Strix aluco) sitting in a tree in the morning sunlight.

Barn Owls are pale overall with dark eyes. They have a mix of buff and gray on the head, back, and upperwings, and are white on the face, body, and underwings.

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

This is a photo of a Red-Tailed Hawk (buteo jamaicensis), which is a common hawk in North America.

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

Beautiful Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) perching in a tree.

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

A Barn Owl flying back to its nest with food in its claws

fine art portrait in the spring season at dusk

The long-eared owl's (Asio otus or Strix otus) breeding season is from February to July. This bird is partially migratory, moving south in winter from the northern parts of its temperate range. Its habitat is forest close to open country. Overall, these owls are secretive, and are rarely seen.

Beautiful Barn owl (Tyto alba) catching a small Mouse at sunset. Sitting in high grass. Noord Brabant in the Netherlands.

Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius) in a grass field. Washington State. Common in North America. Has copy space. Edited.

A view of a beautiful Barn owl in a field on a sunny day

Common Barn Owl, Tyto alba, in the yellow leaves of a tree during Autumn or Fall

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.

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

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