American Barn Owl
Tyto furcata
Family: Barn-owls
American Barn Owl is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
Did you know
The female starts to moult while incubating the eggs and brooding the chicks, a time when the male feeds her so she does not need to fly much.
On a rocky islet off the coast of California, a clutch of four young were being reared on a diet of Leach's storm petrel.
Barn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage.