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A Barn Owl Flies silently while hunting for food as the daylight fades..

A solitary barn owl glides gracefully through the air above a wood stump at night

$An Owl's daily activity begins with preening, stretching, yawning and combing its head with its claws. The plumage is often ruffled up, and claws and toes are cleaned by nibbling with the beak. The Owl will then leave its roost, sometimes giving a call (especially in breeding season)\n\nLike most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.\n\nBarn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favored sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.$

A great grey owl sitting on a branch in twilight

African Eagle Owl lookingtowards the camera at night with moon and clouds

Barn Owl, tyto alba, Adult in flight, Normandy

Snowy Owl patiently gazing at the camera

Barn Owl (Tyto alba) sitting in a tree with autumn colors in the background in Noord Brabant in the Netherlands

$Night shot of a Barn owl (Tyto alba) sitting at a branch. Location: Danube Delta. \nThe Danube Delta (Romanian: Delta Dunării) is the second larges river delta in Europe, it is listed as a World Heritage Site. The larger part of the Delta is belonging to Romania, a smaller part to Ukraine.$

European Barn Owl (Tyto Alba) in completely natural habitat, United Kingdom

Beautiful Barn owl (Tyto alba) sitting on a branch in an apple tree. Autumn background. Noord Brabant in the Netherlands.

Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) perching on a tree in springtime.

A majestic barred owl landing on a wooden post at night

A snowy owl takes off from a tree in the Sax-Zim bog of northeastern Minnesota

3D rendering of awakening owl sitting on tree. Illuminated by bright moonlight

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) - nocturnal bird

Snowy owl flying on a sunny day. Spread wings. Quebec's official bird.

$Portrait of eurasian eagle-owl \nor Iberian eagle-owl, the larger owl. The Eurasian eagle-owl is largely nocturnal in activity, as are most owl species, with its activity focused in the first few hours after sunset and the last few hours before sunrise.$

Daytime front view close-up of a single majestic Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo Bubo) flying over a pond with spread wings towards, and looking at, the camera

Common Barn Owl, Tyto alba, in the yellow leaves of a tree during Autumn or Fall

Barred Owl, Strix varia, is a large typical owl. It goes by many other names, including northern barred owl, striped owl, eight hooter, rain owl, wood owl, and striped owl, but is probably known best as the hoot owl. Kalispell, Montana.

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