Barn Owl Tyto alba

Identification Tips:

• Length: 14 inches Wingspan: 44 inches
• Large, nocturnal, predatory bird
• Large, rounded head
• Pale facial disks with dark frame
• Tawny and gray upperparts with small black and white spots
• White underparts with scattered dark spots
• Sexes similar
• Sometimes found in barns and silos

Similar species:

The Barn Owl is easily distinguished from other owls by its face pattern. In flight, it lacks dark wrist marks found in Long-eared and Short-eared Owls.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.