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Snowy owl, bubo scandiacus, flying on a clear day. White spread wings like an angel. Quebec's official bird. Vulnerable specie.

Barn Owl, tyto alba, Adult in flight, Normandy

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.

Bubo scandiacus or Snowy Owl - Front view

Snowy Owl, Bubo Scandiacus, perched on a post making eye contact with piercing yellow eyes.

Owl landing flight with open wings. Barn Owl, Tyto alba, flight above red grass in the morning. Wildlife bird scene from nature. Cold morning sunrise, animal in the habitat. Bird in the forestm France

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

Snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus). Wildlife bird.

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.

snowy owl (Nyctea scandiaca) isolated on a white background

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

Snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus). Wild life animal.

Daytime front view portrait of a single majestic Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo Bubo) sitting still, looking straight ahead at the camera with defocussed trees in the background - shallow DOF, focus on the eyes

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

Snowy Owl patiently gazing at the camera

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