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#1451 · 🐦 birds

American Barn Owl

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse kerkuil ·Tyto furcata

🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Andria E. Hernandez · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © Jon McIntyre · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © Joe Paquin · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © Damon Tighe · CC BY-NC 4.0
  6. 6. © ungerlord · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Ricardo Arredondo T. · CC BY-NC 4.0
  8. 8. © EfraFlores · CC BY-NC 4.0
  9. 9. © Nature Ali · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
American Barn Owl, photo 1 of 9
1/9 © Andria E. Hernandez · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The American barn owl ( Tyto furcata ) is usually considered a subspecies group and together with the western barn owl group, the eastern barn owl group, and sometimes the Andaman masked owl, make up the barn owl, cosmopolitan in range. The barn owl is recognized by most taxonomic authorities. A few (including the International Ornithologists' Union) separate them into distinct species, as is done here.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 19,233iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 19,233 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
American Barn Owl
Nederlands
Amerikaanse kerkuil
scientific name
Tyto furcata
class
Aves
order
Strigiformes
family
Tytonidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
19,233
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Tytonidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1578502, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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