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A solitary barn owl glides gracefully through the air above a wood stump at night

Western screech-owl (megascops kennicottii) by night, Arizona

Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum)

The barn owl (Tyto alba) is the most widely distributed species of owl in the world. Spring Snowflake (Leucojum vernum) is a flowering plant in the spring forest. Beautiful carpet of flowering spring snowflake.

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

Barn Owl, tyto alba, Adult in flight, Normandy

eagle owl isolated on black with one eye closed

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) - nocturnal bird

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

$Taxon name: Powerful Owl (juvenile)\nTaxon scientific name: Ninox strenua\nLocation: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia$

Eurasian Eagle Owl holding mouse as prey on moss rock

A Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) perched and resting in a tree, bird of prey.

great horned owl Bubo virginianus , also known as the tiger owl

Wild Spotted Owl Sitting on an Ash Tree Branch

Striped Owl (Asio clamator) - Bird of Prey

$Portrait of eurasian eagle-owl \nor Iberian eagle-owl, the larger owl. The Eurasian eagle-owl is largely nocturnal in activity, as are most owl species, with its activity focused in the first few hours after sunset and the last few hours before sunrise.$

The Eurasian eagle-owl wild bird (Bubo bubo) is a species of eagle-owl that resides in much of Eurasia.

Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) Cape Coral Florida USA

Long-eared owl (Asio otus), Hunting at night, in flight, flying

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