Species Name: Barn owl - Tyto alba
Key Facts:
Distinctive pale buff and white owl, seen quartering fields at dusk
Habitat: woods, fields, hedges and heaths
Once common resident, declining rapidly in recent decades
Identification:
White underparts, buffy orange upperparts; pale face with dark eyes
Flies at dusk, quartering field margins and marshes; sometimes hunts along roadside verges
Eats mainly small mammals, especially field voles, sometimes small birds; regurgitates pellets of indigestible remains
Life Cycle:
Nest is a hole in an old hollow tree or a building
1-2 broods Mar-May; 4-7 eggs white