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Beautiful little owl in the wild. Athene noctua. Owl chick on a stick, on a beautiful background.

Eurasian pygmy owl in natural habitat. The smallest European owl sits on the moss.

Barn Owl, tyto alba, Adult in flight, Normandy

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

Striped Owl (Asio clamator) - Bird of Prey

Eurasian Eagle Owl holding mouse as prey on moss rock

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

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

Spotted owlet posing in front of the camera

The Eurasian eagle-owl wild bird (Bubo bubo) is a species of eagle-owl that resides in much of Eurasia.

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) - nocturnal bird

Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum)

Little Owl, Athene noctua, Mediterranean Forest, Castilla y Leon, Spain, Europe

Side view of a Great Horned Owl against a blue sky. Minimum DOF, focus is on the eye. Some slight motion blur on the feathers on top of the head.

The common owl, bubo bubo, squinted his eye and looks ahead. Portrait. Close-up.

A Tawny Owl perching on a tree trunk in woodland scenic

East European Ural owl (Strix uralensis uralensis).

$The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), also known as the tiger owl, winged tiger\$

Southern boobook owl (also known as Ninox boobook) outdoors in natural setting

A wild short eared owl flying one crisp winters evening

Daytime front view close-up of a single majestic Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo Bubo) with spread wings upwards taking off from a bark towards, and looking at, the camera - sky and trees in the background [series 1/3]

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