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Barn Owl

Tyto alba

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Here all year

What it sounds like

No hoot at all: a long, harsh shriek that has frightened generations of people walking home at night.

Tony Archer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

How to recognise it

Unmistakable white heart-shaped face and dark eyes, pale golden back, and a silent, moth-like flight. Roosts in roofs, ceilings and outbuildings. A single pair can take hundreds of rodents in a season, which makes them worth far more to a neighbourhood than any poison.

Seen in Manor Gardens

Nobody has logged a Barn Owl here yet. If you spot one, you will be the first on the record.

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