Sizes:
800x557
1152x803
2058x1434
histogram
Full size:
2058x1434
Barn Owl in flight.
Copyright and usage info :
This illustration was made by Luc Viatour. Please credit this : Luc Viatour An email to Viatour Luc would be appreciated too.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
GNU Free Documentation License , Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
Photo Properties
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D300
Aperture Value
f/4
Exposure Bias Value
715827882 EV
Exposure Program
Aperture Priority
Focal Length
70 mm
ISO
200
Shutter Speed Value
1/1000 sec
Date/Time
Wed 15 Jul 2009 04:00:02 PM EDT
Resolution Unit
Inch
X Resolution
150 dots per ResolutionUnit
Y Resolution
150 dots per ResolutionUnit
Contrast
0
Exposure Mode
0
Saturation
0
Sharpness
0
English Western Barn Owl
Scientific (Tyto alba)
Order STRIGIFORMES
Family (Latin) Tytonidae
Family (English) Barn Owls
Other name(s) Chouette effraie, Common Barn-owl
Breeding Regions AF, PAL
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Albania,Algeria,American Samoa,Andorra,Angola,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Belarus,Belgium, Benin,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Cape Verde,Central African Republic,Chad, Comoros,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea, Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece, Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast, Jordan,Kenya,Kuwait,Latvia,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania, Luxembourg,Macedonia,Madagascar,Malawi,Mali,Mauritania,Moldova,Monaco,Montenegro,Morocco, Mozambique,Namibia,Netherlands,Niger,Nigeria,Niue,Norway,Oman,Palestine,Poland, Portugal,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Samoa,San Marino,Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal, Serbia,Seychelles,Sierra Leone,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan,Spain,Sudan, Swaziland,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Tanzania,Togo,Tonga,Tunisia,Turkey,Uganda, Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States - Hawaii,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
alba nw Africa, w, s Europe to the Balkans
thomensis São Tomé (sc Gulf of Guinea is.)
poensis Africa s of the Sahara, Bioko (n Gulf of Guinea is.)
detorta Cape Verde Is. (most islands; s Macaronesia, w of n Africa)
gracilirostris e Canary Is. (c Macaronesia, nw of n Africa)
schmitzi Madeira, Porto Santo and Desertas (nc Macaronesia, nw of n Africa)
erlangeri Crete and Cyprus through the Middle East to s Iran
ernesti Corsica and Sardinia
guttata c Europe and e Balkans to the Ukraine
hypermetra Comoros, Europa (w of s Madagascar, Mozambique Channel) and Madagascar
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Scopoli, 1769): NOTE(ENG: Change English name of Tyto alba to Western Barn Owl with split of Tyto javanica and T. furcata.)
German Schleiereule
French Effraie des clochers
Chinese 西仓鸮
Japanese メンフクロウ
Russian Сипуха
Spanish Lechuza común
Portuguese coruja-das-torres-ocidental
Bird Data App text
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)