#western barn owl

[shibesky]

owls of ga’hoole if it were epic

[pick-a-plush]

[ornithological]

looks at bird taxonomical updates and sobs in my blog tagging system

[lyvri-pigeon]

please mr pastel was my father just call me Oil

[alexanderoftirragen]

i like the placement for my barn owl tattoo because when i hold my arm one way vs the other it looks like different tyto alba subspecies 😭

[spacefinch]

You guys

There is a screech owl in my neighborhood

(Not my photo, this is from allaboutbirds.org. Great website, by the way!)

Also, fun fact: Screech owls do not screech! They have a softer, trilling hoot. It sound like this.

If you do hear an owl screeching, it is most likely you heard a barn owl.

[scottpartridge]

A rectangular version of North American Owls includes Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Bearded Screech Owl, Whiskered Screech Owl, and Flammulated Owl in addition to the Elf Owl, Northern Pygmy Owl, Saw Whet Owl, Eastern and Western Screech Owls, Boreal Owl, Hawk Owl, Long-Eared Owl, Short-Eared Owl, Burrowing Owl, Barn Owl, Spotted Owl, Barred Owl, Great Horned Owl, Snowy Owl, and Great Grey Owl. Note that the Hawaiian Pueo is a subspecies of Short-Eared Owl.

[snototter]

A barn owl (Tyto alba) perches in the trees in Stirling Ranges, Western Australia

by John Anderson

[phightingheadcanons]

THE BEES ARE BACK....

Phighter and Animal headcanons!!!!

PHIGHTERS

Sword - Scarlet Macaw

Skateboard - Red Fox

Biongraft - N/A

Katana - Barn Owl

Ban Hammer - Wyvern

Rocket - Cottontail Rabbit

Slingshot - Scottish Fold Cat

Hyperlaser - Snow Leopard

Shuriken - Green Snaketail Dragonfly

Scythe - Western Diamondback Rattlesnake

Medkit - White-tailed Deer

Boombox - Tres Marias Raccoon

Subspace - Centipede

Vine Staff - Spotted Lady Beetle

Coil - Northwestern Wolf

DEITIES

Darkheart - Clarias Catfish

Firebrand - Old World Fruit Bat

Ghostwalker - Domestic Silk Moth

Icedagger - Spring Azure Butterfly

Illumina - Purple-winged Ground Dove

Venomshank - Flesh Fly

Windforce - Chinese Fire Dragon

NPCS

Dom - Spectacled Flying Fox Bat

Ghosdeeri - N/A

Graffiti - Albino Ferret

Lightblox - Rosy Maple Moth

Pwnatious - Alaskan Moose

Mx. Bot - Peacock Jumping Spider

Paint Buckèt - Indian Peacock

Rainbeau - Green Peacock

Spray Paint - Congo Peacock

Broker - Spotted Hyena

Traffic - Guadeloupe Raccoon

Valk - Masked Flying Fox Bat

Zuka - Satin Rabbit

- 10,000 angry bees (Headcanon from bee 2732)

RATTLE SNAKE SCYTHE AND CHINESE DRAGON WINDFORCE WE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELL YEAH!!!!!!! SPEAK YOUR TRUTH BEE 2732!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[supremebirdbracket]

Two popular classics! But who is the Superb Owl?

The most widely distributed owl in the Americas, the great horned owl ranges throughout North America and much of Central and South America. They can be found in almost any habitat. These owls mostly prey on rodents and lagomorphs, but are opportunistic hunters and will take anything they can catch, including smaller owls. They hunt by watching from a perch. Regarding their ecological niche, they are sometimes described as the nocturnal equivalent of red-tailed hawks. Great horned owls nest earlier in the year than most other raptors. These owls are very long-lived, with a typical lifespan of around 13 years in the wild (with a record of 28) and up to 50 in captivity!

Western barn owls live throughout Europe as well as much of Africa and the Arabian peninsula in a wide variety of habitats, but most especially favoring open woodland and grasslands. These owls mostly eat small mammals such as rodents and shrews, but will also eat birds, amphibians, lizards, and insects. They hunt by flying slowly over ground and pouncing when movement is detected. Western barn owls are usually monogamous, mating for life. After fledging, young remain with their parents for only about a month. Since barn owls have relatively high metabolic rates, they eat proportionally more rodents than other owls and are thereby appreciated by farmers as effective pest control.

[mer-acle]

Here's a video on how different owls sound and bc I feel funny I'm gonna describe them

Barn owl: Fucking cryptid screech Snowy owl: witchcackle.mp3 from pixabay Great Horned Owl: Naaww listen to this cute little chirp. Sounds a little like a horse Spotted owl: Gossip shocked noise ™ (looks that way too) Eagle Owl: We've upgraded to eviladvisorcackle.mp3 Burrowing Owl: FINALLY AN OWL THAT HOOTS!!! (so cute) Little Owl: The gremling scream you'd expect from it Elf owl: Sounds like a DJ scratch Northern Hawk Owl: Does not sound like a hawk actually Great Grey Owl: Committed to one hoo and runs with that Long Eared Owl: Ah look. A cat. Barred Owl: And here's the matching dog. Northern Saw Whet Owl: Honey, the water is boiling, put out the kettle! Short-eared Owl: Grumpy old woman at the mall. Spectacled Owl: Is that meant to be a laugh? Bc that's a fail Western Screech owl: It sounds like a soundeffect of something dropping and like spinning around for a bit before it lies still Eastern Screech Owl: Sounds like any other bird ever Eurasian Pygmy Owl: Someone's whistling but what song is it? Boreal Owl: Slightly sped up hoo, but still hoo! Oriental Bay Owl: Are you okay you sound anxious? Also looks like a Maki lol Tawny Owl: Spooky Hoo™ Striped Owl: Rubber Duck Tawny Fish Owl: Slightly uncommitted cryptid screech. Spotted Wood Owl: Sounds exactly like the Spotted owl but looks nothing like it. Eurasian Scop Owl: Sounds like it says no, but doesn't really care. Tengmalm's Owl: Spooky hoo, but nice about it. Ural Owl: Can you pick one sound?

(clearly I have no knowledge on owls and idk what other sounds each type makes this is just based on the video I watched for the sake of fanfic lol Owls are cute. I like them)

[irradiatedsnakes]

Have you thought about furry designs for protocol characters yet? I'd love to hear your thoughts on what animals they might be, yours are always top tier (though I understand if you need more time to get vibes from everyone lol)

yes i have!! given we're so early on they're all subject to change (and i haven't chosen one for lena given we don't know anything about her Whole Deal yet) buuut

sam: common raccoon

he really strikes me as a cute, fluffy sort of mammal. i chose raccoon for their curiosity and intelligence, and tendency to get into places they maybe shouldn't be.

alice: great blue heron

this is one of those "entirely vibes based" choices. she feels like a bird to me, and her shapes feel sharply-angled. great blue heron struck me, and i vibed with the design so much it cemented pretty quick.

gwen: lesser sooty owl

given the bouchard connection, i wanted to make her a tytonid (tytonidae, the barn owl family, separate from all the other owls which are family strigidae) given elias is a western barn owl. i chose sooty owl specifically for visual/design reasons, since many tytonids just look.. almost exactly like western barn owls, and sooty owls are quite pretty.

colin: northern pike

one thing you'll notice going through my furry choices is that, while i have a lot of lesser-represented taxa in furry aus like invertebrates, extinct animals, and strange birds, i don't have ANY fishes, at least not since switching martin back from being a nurse shark. that's sad. i wanted to choose at least one fish for the tmagp cast, and i think the northern pike, being a grumpy-looking, solitary animal worked well for colin. (also, i think a clearly carnivorous animal deadpan saying "i'm a vegetarian." is funny)

teddy: sloth bear

i just wanted to choose a fun bear for him. he's there for like three minutes. his name's teddy. Bear

celia: golden alpine salamander

for celia, i wanted to choose something that goes through a metamorphosis, as a reflection of her changing name/identity from getting her name stolen during the fearpocalypse. i chose a terrestrial salamander specifically due to the mythological connotations of salamanders being able to walk through flames unscathed, with her having escaped the apocalypse.

[your-fave-as-owl]

Gentleman ghost from Batman

Gentleman Ghost from the DC comics is a Western/Common Barn Owl (Tyto alba).

Reason: One of the nicknames for the Barn Owl is Ghost Owl and its colour is mainly white with cream and brown along the wings and around the head. Due to Gentleman Ghost being born in England before moving to the U.S.A. which is why a Western Barn Owl is more fitting than an American Barn Owl.

[proton-wobbler]

Great Backyard Bird Off - Schedule & Info

Round One Schedule

Cosmopolitan - posted February 1st & 2nd - 14 polls

Europe - posted February 11th - 9 polls

Africa - posted February 20th - 9 polls

Australia - posted March 1st & 2nd - 20 polls

New Zealand - posted March 11th - 7 polls

Asia - posted March 20th & 21st - 14 polls

the Americas - posted March 29th & 30th - 16 polls

Eurasia - posted April 8th & 9th - 14 polls

Poll Info

There are 8 brackets, with 208 species featured! Ranges were determined either using the self-report feature added to the submission box or with eBird sightings. "Cosmopolitan" is a bracket involving species of birds which were found on at least three continents, regardless of which they were submitted for. "Eurasia" are birds which seem to appear equally between Europe and Asia (majority of the continent, not just Middle East). "the Americas" includes all of the Americas, with US birds removed- granted, some Canadian or Mexican birds can show up in the US, but they're not common enough backyard birds (imo) to have been disqualified.

Please-- feel free to advocate for whichever bird you vote for! I would love to get some more participation with this tournament, especially since this is a poll with popular bird species.

Polls will be a week long, and are tagged #Great Backyard Bird Off. All subsequent reblogs are tagged as #poll reblog. Be sure to block this tag if you want to avoid me spamming your dash. Any reblogs containing support for a species will be tagged #[species] support. Results will be tagged #poll results.

Bird Support Google Form

vvv Participant List under the Read More vvv

Cosmopolitan (28 species)

Black kite, Black-headed gull, Bohemian waxwing, Canada goose, Common buzzard, C. Chiffchaff, C. Kingfisher, C. Loon, C. Myna, C. Nightingale, C. Swift, Eurasian Collared-dove, Eurasian Hoopoe, Eurasian (Common) Kestrel, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, European bee-eater, European (common) starling, Great crested grebe, Great gray owl, Grey wagtail, Little grebe, Ring-necked pheasant, Red-backed Shrike, Rock Pigeon, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Western barn owl, Western cattle egret, White (pied) wagtail

Europe (18 species)

Tawny Owl, Spotless Starling, Red kite, Middle spotted woodpecker, Great spotted woodpecker, Fieldfare, European Stonechat, E. Robin, E. Herring Gull, E. Goldfinch, Eurasian Green Woodpecker, Eurasian Golden Oriole, Eurasian blackcap, Eurasian (Common) Blackbird, Dunnock, Crested tit, Common wood-pigeon, Eurasian Blue tit

Africa (18 species)

African Harrier-hawk, Bearded barbet, Blacksmith lapwing, Bokmakierie, Cape starling, Cape white-eye, Dark-capped bulbul, Hadada ibis, House bunting, Klaas' Cuckoo, Kwevoel (Grey go-away-bird), Nile valley sunbird, Purple-crested turaco, Red-winged starling, Southern double-collared sunbird, Southern masked weaver, Spotted eagle-owl, White-backed mousebird

Australia (41 species)

Yellow Wattlebird, Willie-wagtail, White-faced Heron, Welcome Swallow, Weebill, Tawny Frogmouth, Tasmanian Nativehen, Superb Fairywren, Sulfur-crested Cockatoo, Splendid Fairywren, Sooty Owl, Red-browed Firetail, Red wattlebird, Rainbow lorikeet, Peid currawong, Pheasant coucal, Pacific koel, Noisy miner, Masked lapwing, Magpie-lark, Little corella, Lewin's honeyeater, Laughing kookaburra, Grey fantail, Grey butcherbird, Gang Gang cockatoo, Galah, Eastern spinebill, Eastern rosella, Crimson rosella, Crested pigeon, Crescent honeyeater, Bush stone curlew (thick-knee), Brown thornbill, Black swan, Bell miner, Austarlian ringneck, Australian magpie, Australian Ibis (Bin Chicken), Australasian Swamphen (Pukeko)

New Zealand (14 species)

Kaka, Kakaruwai (South Island robin), Karearea (NZ falcon), Kereru, Koekoea (Long-tailed Koel), Korimako (NZ bellbird), Yellowhead, Piwakawaka (NZ Fantail), Riroriro (Grey Gerygone), Satin Bowerbird, Silvereye (Tahou), Titipounamu (Rifleman), Tomtit, Tui

Asia (28 species)

Asian Koel, Azure-winged Magpie, Black-collared Starling, Brown-eared Bulbul, Colombo (House) Crow, Common Hill-myna, Eastern Buzzard, Japanese Robin, Light-vented Bulbul, Mandarin Duck, Masked Laughingthrush, Olive-backed Sunbird, Oriental Magpie-robin, Oriental Pied Hornbill, Palau Fruit dove, Palla's Gull, Purple-rumped Sunbird, Red-billed Blue magpie, Red Junglefowl, Red-whiskered bulbul, Ruppell's Weaver, Southern Hill-myna, Spotted dove, Swinhoe's White-eye, Whistling Green-pigeon, White-rumped munia, White-spectacled bulbul, Yellow bittern

The Americas (33 species)

Austral Thrush, Bananaquit, Blue-and-white Swallow, Blue-and-yellow Macaw, Bushy-crested Jay, Canada Jay, Chalk-browed Mockingbird, Chimango, Clay-colored Thrush, Common Potoo, Crimson-fronted Parakeet, Eared Dove, Great Kiskadee, Great Thrush, Green-backed Firecrown, Green-headed Tanager, Hoatzin, Lesson's Motmot, Masked Water Tyrant, Pacific Hornero, Pale-breasted Thrush, Plain Parakeet, Red-rumped Cacique, Ruddy Ground Dove, Rufous Hornero, Rufous-bellied Thrush, Rufous-collared Sparrow, Russet-naped Wood rail, Sayaca Tanager, Southern House Wren, Southern Lapwing, White Bellbird, White-crested Elaenia

Eurasia (28 Species)

Black Redstart, Blue Rock thrush, Carrion Crow, Coal Tit, Common Chaffinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Eurasian Bittern, Eurasian Jackdaw, Eurasian Jay, Eurasian Magpie, Eurasian Nuthatch, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Eurasian Siskin, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Eurasian Treecreeper, Eurasian Wren, European Greenfinch, Goldcrest, Great Tit, Hawfinch, Hooded Crow, Long-tailed Tit, Mistle Thrush, Northern Lapwing, Rook, Song Thrush, Spanish Sparrow, Yellowhammer

[halo-mango]

Boue the western barn owl

[lost-lycaon]

Western Barn Owl, seen in Kruger National Park.