Medium-sized owl with a white heart-shaped face. Gray and cinnamon above and white below, although some have cinnamon colored and spotty chests.
White heart-shaped face and dark eyes are distinctive.
During hard winters, or in times of food shortages, Barn Owls sometimes hunt during the day, often frequenting the same open country habitats used by Northern Harriers.
Pale owl with large, heart-shaped facial disk. Capable of rotating head extensively. This video has no audio.
Long, rounded wings and short tails contribute to their loping and buoyant flight style.
Gray and cinnamon above with a white heart-shaped face. Females are often darker than males, but there is much overlap.
Light underparts can make Barn Owls look exceptionally pale in low light. Broad rounded wings give them a buoyant flight style.
Nests in holes in trees, cliff ledges and crevices, caves, burrows in river banks, barn lofts, church steeples, houses, and nest boxes.
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These medium-sized owls have long, rounded wings and short tails, which combine with a buoyant, loping flight to give them a distinctive flight style. The legs are long and the head is smoothly rounded, without ear tufts.
Larger than a screech-owl, but smaller than a Great Horned Owl.
crow-sizedBarn Owls have a worldwide distribution with substantial variation in size and in the patterns of buff and white in the plumage. However, the subspecies found in the United States and Canada does not show substantial geographic variation.
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