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The Barn Owl is the most widely distributed owl in the world, it has several subspecies throughout its range from America, throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, Russia and Australia. Most commonly seen at dawn and dusk the Barn Owl is both nocturnal and crepuscular, but is fully capable of hunting during the day when food is scarce and especially when they have dependant young.

The Barn Owl has a very light buoyant flight. It tends to have a slow wing beat, is capable of gliding and hovering, and the flight is virtually silent. Prey is caught by diving out of the sky and grasping it with it’s long talons.

Barn Owls have fantastic vision in low light levels and have awesome hearing abilities. Prey usually consists of very small mammals, typically mice, voles, shrews, beetles and insects.