Profile
In flight
Owls
Eastern Barn Owl
Tyto javanica
- uncommon
- 48 km/h
- Least Concern
A ghost-pale shape gliding silent and low over paddy stubble at dusk, dropping with a long-legged plunge onto a single sound in the grass. The barn owl of the East, split at last from its Western cousin.
- Population
- very large; locally encouraged as a natural rodent controller in rice and oil-palm regions
- Habitat
- old farm buildings, temple lofts, palm groves, paddy edges, grassland, and village outskirts across South and Southeast Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia
- Diet
- rats, mice, shrews, small birds, large insects — overwhelmingly small rodents
- Size
- 0.36 m
- Wingspan
- 0.95 m
