10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2012

Wander through my front door and glance upwards and you’ll find at least two watching you, a Tawny Owl and a Barn Owl , both sadly gathered as roadkills. Above our fireplace is a large painting of a Barn Owl.

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Barn Owls Finland Owls Portugal 179

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2018

Let’s enjoy the owls of Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Eastern Screech-Owl. Great Horned Owl with owlet and dinner. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl. This species hunts at night from low to mid-level perches, such as fence posts, in open areas adjacent to forests and woodlands. Stygian Owl. Photo by © Zach.

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Texas Owls Barn Owls Hunting 150

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

It was our second trip out on this piece of highway this year and sadly the second deceased Barn Owl. Unfortunately we have only ever seen dead Barn Owls in the Broome area and one day it would be nice to see a bird hunting over the land. Grass Owls are also present in the area, but remain off our bird list.

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Barn Owls Seals Cattle Birds 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2023

I always undertake a number of short timed surveys for the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Big Farmland Bird Count in February, and though the counts didn’t add anything to the year list, they were memorable for finding big flocks of finches and buntings, while a daylight-hunting Barn Owl was a pleasing sight.

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Estonia Portugal Greece Barn Owls 223

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

Typically these birds hunt at night and are very shy. So my first sighting of Pel’s Fishing Owl was highly appreciated. When visiting the Makgadikgadi Pans region we spotted several Marsh Owls quartering the pan fringes at dusk and, at Mowana Lodge in the Chobe, we had protracted views of their resident Barn Owl.

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Fish Owls Botswana Barn Owls 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

It’s a small education Northern White-faced Owl that completely changes shape as zoo keepers bring by other types of owls that would be a predator for that species. For the only slightly larger Barn Owl the bird puffs itself up to look fierce and like a foe to be avoided.

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Owls Barn Owls Agenda Zoos 261

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

American Kestrels, Cooper Hawks , and Northern Harriers also found the hunting here to their liking. I spooked three Barn Owls out of a dense scrub row, just as the sun was setting. It got to within about 15 yards, calmly hunting for breakfast as it came. This one flew right over my head.

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Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 121

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The grebe, the warbler, and the snipe didn’t help me on my record-hunt but a birder’s gonna bird. So it was over to the West Pond – by way of Big John’s Pond where I finally got my first look at a Barn Owl for the year – where I scanned through lots of Snow Geese and didn’t find anything but Snow Geese.

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Geese Jamaica Ducks Barn Owls 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

She starts with the Barn Owl, and proceeds in her book, one owl per chapter, usually informed by an expert guide of some sort, such as Luke, an officer in Britain’s Barn Owl Trust. Thus her story becomes “braided with two ecologies – the ornithological and the personal.”

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Barn Owls Owls Finland Serbia 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

.” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). Owls are in danger from the usual threats–habitat destruction, climate change, human intrusion. They are also hunted.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 207

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2012

Graceful Honeyeater ( Meliphaga gracilis ) Metallic Starling colony ( Aplonis metallica ) I got my Platypus just before dark; it was much smaller than I expected but utterly enthralling as it hunted along the river bank.

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Possums Guinea Marsupials Rats 171

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

What kind of miscreant kicks a Barn Owl in mid-flight? Someone better tell that flamingo not to stay put and avoid Malta, where voters narrowly rejected a ban on hunting migratory birds. Research that’s sure to peeve anyone who’s struggled to list both a Common Redpoll and a Hoary Redpoll.

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Malta Barn Owls Fowl Cyprus 182