Barn Owls
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Barn Owls
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This is a Barn Owl. You can tell this is a Barn Owl by
its heart-shaped face.
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Barn owls live in open countryside that contains a good mixture of rough grasslands, marsh land, young trees, edge of woodland, old barns, tree hollows and nest boxes.
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Barn Owls are nocturnal, meaning they hunt at night.
They are carnivores, meaning they eat meat.
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Barn Owls mainly hunt by sound rather than by sight. With its acute hearing the Barn Owl can detect the slightest movement & sound of its prey.
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The ears are set with one higher than the other under the feathering of the inside edge of the facial disc, located next to the eyes.
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The facial disc acts as an amazing sound funnel, collecting and filtering sound.
This allows the owl to detect movement of its prey with complete accuracy.
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The main diet for the Barn Owl is the short-tailed vole; other rodents include shrews, wood mice & young rats. They swallow their pray whole digesting what they are able from their meal.
Short-Tailed Vole Shrew Wood Mouse Young Rat
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Barn Owl Eating Prey
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An owl can’t digest everything it consumes from it’s meal.
The material it can’t digest becomes a small, oval-shaped
pellet that contains the bone, fur and feathers from the
animals it has eaten. The owl coughs it up and spits it out,
much like a cat and a fur ball.
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An Owl Pellet Emerges!
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You can see the skull of one of the animals this owl
ate. Owls will often eat many animals before they
dispose of the indigestible material.