The Barn Owl is a relatively small owl species that inhabits North America. Easy to distinguishable by its heart shaped face. Barn Owls are unable to endure cold climates and do not migrate. Their survival is based on finding warm shelter. With keen hearing they locate prey in total darkness.
While Barn Owls have customarily resided in barns and primarily feed on rodents. Dramatic changes in farming practices has created loss of habitat by eliminating old barns and replaced them with "bird proof barns."
Barn Owls provide a valuable service to farmers. A family will consume more than 3,000 mice during a nesting a season. They hunt at dusk for rodents in old farm fields, tall grass prairies, open grassy areas, ditches and the edge of wetlands. Loss of habitat and food sources has caused this owl to hunt small birds for survival.
Barn Owls use tree cavities, barns, silos, and abandoned buildings and cliff faces as nesting sites. While they do not build nests, they create a base of fur and bones from rodent prey they have eaten. Both parents feed the young.
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