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Barn Owl has been split into three species, shown below:
- Western Barn Owl (Tyto alba) -- Europe, Africa, and western Asia
- Eastern Barn Owl (Tyto javanica) -- most of Asia and Australasia
- American Barn Owl (Tyto furcata) -- the Americas
Earlier than this, Ashy-faced Owl was also considered a part of what is now American Barn Owl. The birds in the Lesser Antilles (insularis and nigrescens) are placed in Ashy-faced Owl by IOC but kept in American Barn Owl by Clements and the Opus.
König and Weick in their Owl monograph has further proposed splitting of the following taxa, which currently are still included in the above three:
- Curaçao Barn Owl (Tyto bargei); the island of Curaçao (included in American Barn Owl).
- Lesser Antilles Barn Owl (Tyto insularis); Dominica and St. Vincent to Grenada (included in American Barn Owl).
- Galapagos Barn Owl (Tyto punctatissima); islands in Galapagos (included in American Barn Owl).
- Cape Verde Barn Owl (Tyto detorta); the Cape Verde Islands (included in Western Barn Owl).
- Sao Tome Barn Owl (Tyto thomensis); Sao Tome Island (included in Western Barn Owl).
- Australian Barn Owl (Tyto delicatula); Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Indonesia and Polynesia (included in Eastern Barn Owl).
- Boang Barn Owl (Tyto crassirostris); Tanga group of Bismarck Archipelago (included in Eastern Barn Owl).
References
- Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, M. Smith, and C. L. Wood. 2024. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2024. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2024. IOC World Bird List (v 14.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.14.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- König, C. and F. Weick (2008). Owls of the world, second edition. Christopher Helm, London. ISBN 9780713665482
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Barn Owl. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 20 February 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Barn_Owl
