How to Use barn owl in a Sentence

barn owl

noun

• Many owl species, like the barn owl, weigh less than two pounds.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
• But barn owls don’t need to hitch a ride to Lehua Island.
  — Tim Lydon, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• On the cover of Hold on Baby, she’s posed with a snowy barn owl.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2022
• And birds of prey like buzzards, sparrowhawks, barn owls, and tawny owls.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
• Voles are a favorite meal for barn owls, which come in two shades, reddish brown and white.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2019
• This also will become the home for the screech owls, barn owls and burrowing owls.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 12 Mar. 2018
• Why were the barn owls able to maintain such acute hearing throughout their lives?
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
• Students get to don thick leather gloves and let a Harris’ hawk, red tail hawk or barn owl land on their fists.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• This program will include a trio of screech owls, a barn owl and a peregrine falcon.
  — Hartford Courant, 10 June 2022
• Earlier this evening one of our crews on a brush rig rescued a barn owl from the flames of the #SilveradoFire.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2020
• In her care was a kestrel, peregrine falcon, barn owl, bald and golden eagle.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 29 May 2018
• Volunteer Jeanne Wadsworth brought out Tyton, a barn owl from Utah.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 29 May 2018
• Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, a barn owl has just eaten a mouse.
  — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
• Who Was Afraid of the Dark tells the story of Plop, a baby barn owl who is helped by others to overcome his fears and grow in confidence.
  — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Feb. 2022
• The research group found that the cilia are notably absent from feathers of barn owls and nightjars, two species that stalk prey at night.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2020
• In the story, a baby barn owl named Plop is frightened of the dark, but he's helped by others to grow in confidence and overcome his fears.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• On April 29, a barn owl arrived at the Bahde Wildlife Center with most of her feathers saturated in glue.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2021
• The bellies of Tyto alba, as the common barn owl is formally known, can range in color from dark red to bright white.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 4 Sep. 2019
• The exception is in silent fliers, like barn owls, whose feathers have evolved to make sounds that are 40 decibels more quiet than those of pigeons.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2020
• The flat faces of certain owls, like the barn owl, act as a giant external ear — like a satellite dish — with the feathers directing the sound into the ear.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Israel is home to the densest barn owl population in the world, according to a statement.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• As the night unfolded, a barn owl flew silently by on its nocturnal hunting rounds.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2021
• Next Snyder brought out a screeching female barn owl, its flat white face appearing a little sleepy in the broad daylight.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2018
• This could explain why white barn owls continue to have red counterparts.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 4 Sep. 2019
• The happy couple was just about to exchange vows when the barn owl — which had been commissioned specifically to fly down the aisle and deliver the rings to the best man — took off from its perch near the back of the room.
  — Michael Bartiromo, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
• The resort’s roster includes six Harris’s hawks, one peregrine falcon, one Eurasian eagle owl, one barn owl and an Eastern screech owl.
  — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
• In fact, many cultures associate the barn owl with superstition.
  — National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2020
• This plumage coloration is entirely due to melanins, because no carotenoids or other pigments have been isolated from barn owl feathers (ref).
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• What’s most striking within the buffer zone is the stillness of the place and the range of wildlife that can be encountered, such as a rare species of barn owl that has been allowed to multiply unmolested by human habitation.
  — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2019
• Molds of the inner ear canal from a barn owl (left) and S. deserti (right) are almost identical, suggesting that the small dinosaur had incredible hearing.
  — Discover Magazine, 7 May 2021

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