tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13217861989848985262024-03-07T22:56:21.928-08:00For those who are fond of owlsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321786198984898526.post-78138939350466949952010-09-30T08:33:00.001-07:002010-09-30T08:33:41.564-07:00An article from Wikipedia.<b>Barn-owls</b> (family <b>Tytonidae</b>) are one of the two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_%28biology%29" title="Family (biology)">families</a> of owls, the other being the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_owl" title="True owl">true owls</a>, Strigidae. They are medium to large sized owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces. They have long, strong legs with powerful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talon" title="Talon">talons</a>. They also differ from Strigidae in structural details relating in particular to the sternum and feet.<br />
The barn owls comprise two extant sub-families: the Tytoninae or <i>Tyto</i> owls (including the Common <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_Owl" title="Barn Owl">Barn Owl</a>) and the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phodilinae" title="Phodilinae">Phodilinae</a> or bay-owls. The <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibley-Ahlquist_taxonomy" title="Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy">Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy</a> unites the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprimulgiformes" title="Caprimulgiformes">Caprimulgiformes</a> with the owl <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_%28biology%29" title="Order (biology)">order</a>; here, the barn-owls are a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subfamily" title="Subfamily">subfamily</a> <b>Tytoninae</b>. This is unsupported by more recent research (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypselomorphae" title="Cypselomorphae">Cypselomorphae</a>), but the relationships of the owls in general are still unresolved.<br />
The barn owls are a wide ranging family, absent only from northern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara" title="Sahara">Saharan</a> Africa and large areas of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a>. They live in a wide range of habitats from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert" title="Desert">deserts</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest" title="Forest">forests</a>, and from <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate" title="Temperate">temperate</a> latitudes to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropics" title="Tropics">tropics</a>. The majority of the 16 living species of barn owls are poorly known. Some, like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Red_Owl" title="Madagascar Red Owl">Madagascar Red Owl</a>, have barely been seen or studied since their discovery, in contrast to the Common Barn Owl, which is one of the best known owl species in the world. However, some sub-species of the Common Barn Owl possibly deserve to be a separate species, but are very poorly known.<br />
Five species of barn-owl are threatened, and some island species have gone <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct" title="Extinct">extinct</a> during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene" title="Holocene">Holocene</a> or earlier (e.g. <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyto_pollens" title="Tyto pollens">Tyto pollens</a></i>, known from the fossil record of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andros_Island" title="Andros Island">Andros Island</a> in the Bahamas, and possibly the basis for the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickcharnie" title="Chickcharnie">Chickcharnie</a>). The barn-owls are mostly <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal" title="Nocturnal">nocturnal</a>, and generally non-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_migration" title="Bird migration">migratory</a>, living in pairs or singly.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321786198984898526.post-50523313769334134072010-09-30T08:26:00.000-07:002010-09-30T08:26:02.525-07:00TwitterI will now be posting my blog on twitter to be hopefully getting more viewers. Wish me luckUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321786198984898526.post-31145868284627125572010-09-29T12:26:00.000-07:002010-09-29T12:26:19.460-07:00FondHello world. I started this blog because I am very, very fond of owls. They are by far my favorite creature in the animal kingdom. This blog is for me posting everything I know about owls and the reasons i'm fond of them.<br />
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