Barn Owl - Tyto alba
The Barn Owl is a distinctive bird with a heart shaped face, buff back and wings and pure white under parts.
Open country, along field edges, riverbanks and roadside verges
All year round; during the day, but best at dusk.
They are hunters, feeding on mice, voles and shrews.
Widespread in Britain, but has declined in numbers here over the past 50 years.
Uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Paul Riddle
Peatling Magna
20 May 2010
marianmarkham@btinternet.com
langham
20 January 2025
Rod Baker
Rutland Water
12 June 2012
John Cranfield
North Leicestershire
28 July 2009
juvenile bird with remnants of down
Rod Baker
Great Easton
04 June 2015
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Species profile
- Common names
- Western Barn Owl, Barn Owl
- Species group:
- Birds
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Strigiformes
- Family:
- Tytonidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 349
- First record:
- 01/01/1985 (LROS)
- Last record:
- 31/03/2025 (Quinn, Owen)
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Rod Baker
Tur Langton
28 March 2013
Don
Great Bowden
09 March 2021
Barn owl.
Chris Lythall
Eyebrook Reservoir
25 January 2008
John Cranfield
North Leicestershire
28 July 2009
juvenile bird with remnants of down
David Taylor
Shenton
18 June 2012
Rod Baker
Tur Langton
28 March 2013
John Greenwood and Pamela Gothard
Rare Ltd
11 July 2009
John Greenwood and Pamela Gothard
Rare Ltd
06 April 2013
