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BARN OWL FACTS |
Description
The Barn Owl has sandy brown and light grey upperparts and white to cream underparts with a 'heart-shaped' disc on face.
Size
34cm
Habitat
open country such as farms, heath and lightly wooded forest.
Food
rodents and birds, also some insects, frogs and lizards
Breeding
The nest is normally a hollow in a tree, but sometimes nests in caves or abandoned buildings. Lays 3-6 eggs.
Range
throughout Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Strigiformes | | Family: | Tytonidae | | Genus: | Tyto | | Species: | alba | | Common Name: | Barn Owl |
Relatives in same Genus
Grass Owl (T. capensis)
Lesser Sooty Owl (T. multipunctata)
Masked Owl (T. novaehollandiae)
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