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A majestic barred owl landing on a wooden post at night

Great grey owl (Strix nebulosa). Wild life animal.

Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum)

The horned owl sits on a branch against the backdrop of a full moon rising on a pine forest at night.

Tawny frogmouth owl in the middle of the road at dusk

A Barred Owl looking down from the treetop.

Beautiful Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum), the smallest owl in Europe, perching on a tree.

Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary, Satara, Maharashtra, India. Indian Scops Owl, Otus bakkamoena

Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) is the smallest owl in Europe, bird in natural habitat

Barred owl (Strix varia) in the South Fork Rock Creek watershed, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon. Photographed during a barred owl survey with US Geological Survey wildlife biologist Dave Simon, betwen 7pm and 12:30 am, June 30 - July 1, 2016.

Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) Cape Coral Florida USA

an Owl rests on a branch in Madera Canyon, Arizona

Little preschool kid girl holding selfmade traditional owl lanterns with candle for St. Martin procession. child happy about children and family parade in kindergarten. German tradition Martinsumzug.

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

Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) Hunting at night

Large predatory tawny frogmouth perching on a eucalypt stump with a black background

northern hawk-owl or northern hawk owl (Surnia ulula) Norway

birds survive and exist in the harsh conditions of Southern Africa.

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