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Marco Hackney Feb 14

#RHSHydeHall #BarnOwls 🦉
#Banshee #BansheeLegend

The Bee Guy Feb 14

LOVE

Barn Owl style.

At World Bee Sanctuary.

This week.

Happy Valentine’s folks.

#love
#barnowls
#birds #owls
#nature
#saturday
#ValentinesDay
#valentines
#worldbeesanctuary

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Richard Rathe Feb 8

@czarbucks

You can see why they are sometimes called "ghostly".

Fun facts... #BarnOwls have their own genus (Tyto) and live on all continents except Antarctica.

Barn owls have excellent low-light vision, and can easily find prey at night by sight.

👉 But their ability to locate prey by sound alone is the best of any animal that has ever been tested. 👈

[This is facilitated by one ear opening being higher on the skull than the other--giving them 2-axis discrimination for sound. Most birds/animals only get left vs right.]

They can catch mice in complete darkness in the lab, or hidden by vegetation or snow out in the real world. #Birds #Hearing

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Barn_Owl/

American Barn Owl Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Ghostly pale and normally strictly nocturnal, American Barn Owls are silent predators of the night world. Lanky, with a whitish face, chest, and belly, and buffy upperparts, 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.

Dormouse Feb 6

Documentaries show that predators such as #barnowls, #eagleowls, #tawnyowls, #kestrels, #commonbuzzards, #redkites, #foxes can be secondarily poisoned if they eat poisoned #mice.Long-term monitoring of barn owls reveals widespread contamination with #rodenticides,while systematic monitoring is lacking in many countries.This is precisely where the agricultural and hunting lobbies intertwine:instead of promoting natural predators as allies,they defend poisoning strategies

https://wildbeimwild.com/en/owl-parents-as-a-team-not-as-predators/

Owl parents as a team – not as “vermin”

Barn owl parents care for their young with impressive teamwork. Why do these strictly protected mouse hunters survive despite hunting bans and the influence of the agricultural and hunting lobby?

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