July Barn Owl Sighting
I was standing out in my one of the fields at my farm the other day, with two miniature Shetland ponies grazing at my feet, when a common barn owl started circling us about 20 feet up. It wasn’t yet dusk and was quite early for a barn owl to be out as they are […]
August 4, 2010
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The Common Barn Owl
The Common Barn Owl (Tyto Alba), or Barn Owl as it is most often called, belongs to the owl family ‘Tytonidae’. There are two families of owls: Tytonidae (barn owls) and Strigidae (true/typical owls). Of the Tytonidae family, there are two living subfamilies, the Tytoninae, which are the Tyto Owls, and the Phodilinae, which are […]
August 2, 2010
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