Live web cameras from the Peak District National Park of Barn Owls, Badgers & wildlife. Plus information, videos and images of Barn Owls. Learn about the barn owl, a widespread and adaptable bird with a white face and a haunting screech. Find out how it hunts, what it eats, where it lives, and how it reproduces. This is because barn owls are natural pest controllers that feed predominantly on rodents, and their exceptional hunting skills set them apart. Their heart-shaped faces aren’t merely an attractive design, they act like sound funnels, directing even the faintest rustle straight to their ears. Medium-sized owl with a heart-shaped facial disc and deep dark eyes. Varies somewhat across a wide range, but always note white-and-black speckling on the upperparts, beautiful gray-and-tawny wings, and large round head with ghostly white facial disc. Compared with various other masked-owls and grass-owls that overlap in range, Eastern Barn generally has a brighter white face. Hunts in open areas by night, foraging with a slow and buoyant flight. Roosts in old buildings, tree hollows, caves ...
