Barn owl

10:52:5

2024-03-05

1669

Ghostly pale and normally strictly nocturnal, Barn Owls are silent predators of the night world. Lanky, with a whitish face, chest, belly, and buffy upper parts, this owl roosts in hidden, quiet places during the day. By night, they hunt on buoyant wingbeats in open fields and meadows. You can find them by listening for their eerie, raspy calls, quite unlike the hoots of other owls. Despite a worldwide distribution, Barn Owls are declining in parts of their range due to habitat loss.

Many people’s first sighting of a Barn Owl is while driving through the open country at night—a flash of pale wings in the headlights is usually this species. Barn Owls also often live up to their name, inhabiting barns and other old, abandoned buildings, so keep an eye out for them there. Barn Owls don’t hoot the way most other owls do; you can listen for their harsh screeches at night.

Facts about barn owls

Barn Owls swallow their prey whole—skin, bones, and all. About twice a day, they cough up pellets instead of passing all that material through their digestive tracts. The pellets make a great record of what the owls have eaten, and scientists study them to learn more about the owls and the ecosystems they live in.
Up to 46 different races of the Barn Owl have been described worldwide. The North American form is the largest, weighing more than twice as much as the smallest race from the Galapagos Islands.
Barn Owl females are somewhat showier than males. She has a more reddish and more heavily spotted chest. The spots may indicate the quality of the female. Heavily spotted females get fewer parasitic flies and may be more resistant to parasites and diseases. The spots may also stimulate the male to help more at the nest. In an experiment where some females’ spots were removed, their mates fed their nestlings less often than for females whose spots were left alone.
The Barn Owl has excellent low-light vision, and can easily find prey at night by sight. But its ability to locate prey by sound alone is the best of any animal ever tested. It can catch mice in complete darkness in the lab, or hidden by vegetation or snow in the real world.
The oldest known North American Barn Owl lived in Ohio and was at least 15 years, and 5 months old when it died.

Nature

Tropical Peatlands Are Burning Like Never Before in 2000 Years

2026-03-17

Desert Dust Is Freezing Clouds Across the Northern Hemisphere

2026-03-15

The Last 10 Years of Climate Data Reveal Something Alarming

2026-03-10

Switzerland Just Lost 3% of Its Glacier Ice in a Year as the Alps Heat Up

2026-03-08

Plastic Without End: Are We Polluting the Planet for Eternity?

2026-03-03

Planting Trees Is Not Always Good for Birds, Study Finds

2026-02-25

Invasive Ants Turn Bumble Bee Foraging Into Costly Battles

2026-02-23

Glaciers Can Suddenly and Dangerously Surge Up to 60 Meters a Day

2026-02-21

Half of the Coral Reefs in the World are Devastated by Record Ocean Heat

2026-02-18

Spider Silk Is Stronger Than Steel and Now We Know Why

2026-02-15

Get advices

Your Goals May Harm You If You ... read more

2025-09-10

You Always Have a Choice

2025-09-03

Effectiveness of Training

2025-08-31

How Do We Respond to Provocati ... read more

2025-08-27

1	Localization of Technology

2	Rationalizing Reactions

3	Why Do We Learn?

4	Take Responsibility for Your Choices

5	The Key to Success in Your Work and Life

6	Forgive Others

7	Increase Your Learning Ability

8	Pay Close Attention to Investigating Cau ... read more

9	The Pareto Principle

SOCIETY AFFAIRS

Lack of Will Power the Obstacle to Success ... read more

Vigilance in the Midst of Problems ... read more

The Scope of Human Possibilities ... read more

How to Not Be Tempted to Eat Junk Food ... read more

The Waves of Change Created by Outstanding Persona ... read more

Tenacity and Victory

Self-Suggestion

Secured Spiritual Well-Being by Means of Fruitful ... read more

Isolation and Unsociability

Books, Precious Companions

Family & Life

10:42:32 2026-03-16

Interpretation of Sura al-Nur - Verse 30

11:27:55 2026-03-14

Interpretation of Sura al-Nur - Verse 29

12:6:11 2026-03-09

Interpretation of Sura al-Nur - Verse 28

11:22:50 2026-03-04

Islamic Idelogies

True Freedom

10:44:29 2026-03-16

Humiliation and Sin

11:34:27 2026-03-14

A Big Fault

12:8:13 2026-03-09

The Criterion of Responsibility in the View o ... read more

10:17:33 2026-02-22

Holy Prophet

A Mathematical Approach to the Quran

10:52:33 2024-02-16

mediation

2:36:46 2023-06-04

what Allah hates the most

5:1:47 2023-06-01

allahs fort

11:41:7 2023-05-30

Prophet ‘s progeny

striving for success

2:35:47 2023-06-04

Imam Ali Describes the Holy Quran

5:0:38 2023-06-01

livelihood

11:40:13 2023-05-30

silence about wisdom

3:36:19 2023-05-29

Science and technology

A New Kind of Atomic Clock Could Redefine the Seco ... read more

11:55:28

2026-03-17

A tiny meta

This Ultra-Thin Device Controls Light Like a Micro ... read more

11:57:36

2026-03-15

Cumberland,

Clean Energy Discovered in the Depths of Old Coal ... read more

11:6:35

2026-03-10

People with

Forget IQ: This One Surprising Skill Predicts if Y ... read more

11:11:53

2026-03-08

Health &Fitness

Is Your Brain Actually to Blame for High Blood Pre ... read more

11:57:14

2026-03-17

This Simple Japanese Eating Habit Is Linked to a L ... read more

11:59:32

2026-03-15

The Dangerous Sleep Combo That Raises Blood Pressu ... read more

11:7:50

2026-03-10

MOST VIEWS

Importance of Media

9:3:43 2018-11-05

10 benefits of Marriage in Islam

7:5:22 2019-04-08

benefits of reciting surat yunus, hud &

9:45:7 2018-12-24

advantages & disadvantages of divorce

11:35:12 2018-06-10

Is money everything in life?

6:0:51 2018-10-16

Illuminations

bahlool & the throne of haroun rashid

8:20:35 2018-06-21

the quran

3:18:29 2022-12-24

never answer to your lusts

7:0:55 2022-05-17

think well

8:39:51 2022-09-23

your children

7:32:24 2022-02-14

noah & his ark

7:59:14 2018-06-21

the happy life of mankind requirement

6:36:36 2022-01-25

IMmORTAL Words

Isaac Newton once said: "Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."

5:41:46 2023-03-18

Albert Einstein once said: "Imagination is more important than science for it surrounds the world"

10:13:17 2022-06-08

The first student of Islam, Al-Imam Ali-Ibn- Abi Talib (peace be upon him) said: "Worshiping acts is like a drop of water in the sea of directing to righteousness, and what is better than directing to righteousness is saying the right at the presence of an oppressor"

1:4:11 2022-05-26

Verner Heisenberg
The German theoretical physicist and the key pioneer of quantum mechanics said:
"The first gulp from the glass of nature sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you"

8:58:43 2022-04-19

A man who lies to himself , and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth , either in himself or in anyone else , and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

When he has no respect for anyone , he can no longer love , and , in order to divert himself , having no love in him, he yields to his impulses , indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure , and behaves in the end like an animal .

And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself .

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

10:28:46 2022-03-16

Reality Of Islam

MOST VIEWS

IMmORTAL Words