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Description
The Barn Owl’s prey consists mainly of small mammals, in particular short-tailed and field voles, mice and common shrews. These it either still-hunts from a perch or searches for by quartering over meadowland, usually in the half-light at dusk or dawn and often hovering with moth-like silent fluttering flight as it relies on its superb hearing to locate prey. It is estimated that a pair of Barn Owls and their young may eat about 1,000 rodents between them during the three-month breeding season.

African Barn aka African Grass Owl IUCN Red List Conservation status - Least Concern
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Description
The Barn Owl’s prey consists mainly of small mammals, in particular short-tailed and field voles, mice and common shrews. These it either still-hunts from a perch or searches for by quartering over meadowland, usually in the half-light at dusk or dawn and often hovering with moth-like silent fluttering flight as it relies on its superb hearing to locate prey. It is estimated that a pair of Barn Owls and their young may eat about 1,000 rodents between them during the three-month breeding season.

African Barn aka African Grass Owl IUCN Red List Conservation status - Least Concern
For more see my Birds folder here [link]
Also see my Birds - Raptors`n`Vultures folder here [link]
You may NOT use, replicate, manipulate, or modify this image.
All Rights Reserved.
Dawn Quadling, in-the-picture, © 2010
Want to draw or manip my photos?
See my *quaddles quality stock gallery
Thank you in advance for all 's, however I do ALWAYS answer comments (may take a while though)