The Barn Owl- OWL Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society

With its heart-shaped face and hissing screeches, the Barn Owl is different enough from typical owls to be placed in a separate family, the Tytonidae. It is also distinctive in flight, golden-buff above and whitish or buff below. Barn Owls feed on a wide variety of prey but prefer smaller rodents when available, e.g., voles (Microtus species), and will breed year-round if prey populations are high. It has one of the broadest ranges of any bird, found on every continent except Antarctica, thriving wherever winter snowfall is absent or minimal. OWL (Orphaned Wildlife) Rehabilitation Society is a registered non-profit organization whose staff and volunteers are dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of injured and orphaned raptors and to educating the public on the conservation and importance of them.