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Barn Owl, tyto alba, Adult in flight, Normandy

Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) Hunting at night

Barn owl hunting xi hover side view. October 2018

An open owl's wing with a black background... copy space.

Blakiston's fish owl (Ketupa blakistoni) fishing at night Hokkaido Japan

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

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) - nocturnal bird

The tawny owl or brown owl - Strix aluco is a stocky, medium-sized owl commonly found in woodlands across much of the Palearctic.

A Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) flying over sand dunes in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Great Horned Owl, with wings spread out about to land accurately on a forest branch

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

Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus) flying over a marsh in search of prey. Delta, B.C., Canada

An osprey in flight with the forest in the background on a lake in Northern Finland

Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) Cape Coral Florida USA

A Great Horned Owl in captivity after being rescued following an injury.

$Closed up nocturnal bird, adult Brown wood-owl, uprisen angle view, front shot, in the night sitting on the branch of tropical tree in nature of tropical\nmoist montane forest, national park in high mountain of northern Thailand.$

Western barn owl flying in the evening in front of a forest, North Norfolk, UK

Flying Barn owl (Tyto alba), hunting. Dark green background. Noord Brabant in the Netherlands.

$Taxon name: Australian Greater Sooty Owl\nTaxon scientific name: Tyto tenebricosa tenebricosa\nLocation: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia$

Disoriented brown owl standing on the ground.

This is a photo of a Red-Tailed Hawk (buteo jamaicensis), which is a common hawk in North America.

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