It wasn't just the diurnal raptors that were having a field day with the mouse plague at Willandra, there were also lots of Barn Owls and Tawny Frogmouths seen, and Southern Boobooks heard. We came across this owl while we were out spotlighting - it allowed me to get very close, this is full frame, uncropped. Probably my birding highlight from Willandra National Park. It's standing on one leg, by the way, with the other tucked up under its breast feathers.
Note this species has been recently split from the Barn Owl (Tyto alba) by some authorities, including the Australian authority Christidis & Boles in their Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds (2008).
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