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The close-up shot of a white owl on a tree branch at evening

A great grey owl sitting on a branch in twilight

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

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) - nocturnal bird

Snowy owl, bubo scandiacus, in flight. Rare bird.

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

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

$Portrait of eurasian eagle-owl \nor Iberian eagle-owl, the larger owl. The Eurasian eagle-owl is largely nocturnal in activity, as are most owl species, with its activity focused in the first few hours after sunset and the last few hours before sunrise.$

A wild short eared owl flying one crisp winters evening

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

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

Multiple exposure image of Great Horned Owl face with night sky and trees in background

A flock of Snow Geese land on morning-lit waters in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico

A beautiful shot of an flying owl at sunset

Barn owl seen here in flight over the grassland. The barn owl is found all over the world, a nocturnal bird and have a very acute hearing which they use for hunting small mammals.

great grey owl in flight during golden hour

Great Horned owl in flight through the forest with its wings spread

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

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

A Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) in flight at Aberdeen, Scotland.

Close-up of snowy owl in action and looking at camera. Spread wings. Quebec's official bird.

White owl sitting on a stump in the dark. High-quality photo

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