ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLERS AND THEIR ALLIES
THE OWLS
The European Barn Owl
(S.flammea), which is held by many to be the principal species of the genus and the type whence has sprung most of the forms spread so widely over the globe, is smaller than the American species, the average length being only fourteen inches. As properly restricted, it is found only in Europe and Africa, and may be described as light tawny yellow above, with lower plumage white.
In this, as in the American Barn Owl, there is a light and a dark phase of plumage, the former being white, the latter tawny, below. As its habits are practically the same as those of its American cousin, it is not necessary to recount them at length.
Its note is described by Dresser as”a loud, harsh, weird shriek, and both the old and young birds utter a deep snoring sound.”Its food consists of rats, mice, moles, large insects, small birds, occasionally also of fish, but principally of mice.
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