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The common barn owl (Latin Tyto alba) is a bird of prey of the barn owl family. The most common species in the world of the genus Barn.
Below you can find a name for your barn owl.
Old English Names for Barn Owls
- Common Owl
- Golden Owl
- Barnyard Owl
- Church Owl
- Billy Wise
- Cherubim
- Cave Owl
- Oolert
- White Breasted Owl
- Gilli-Howlett
- Madge Howlett
- Hoolet
- Billy Wix
- Yellow Owl
- Demon Owl
- Silver Owl
- Berthuan
- Hissing Owl
- Moggy
- Dobby Owl
- Scritch Owl
- Hobgoblin Owl
- Gil-Hooter
- Night Owl
- Jenny Howlet
- Farmer’s Friend
- White Owl
- Death Owl
- Rat Owl
- Ghost Owl
- Roarer
- Stone Owl
- Monkey-faced Owl
- Screech Owl
- Hobby Owl
- Screaming Owl
- White Hootlet
- Billy Whit
- Straw Owl
- Delicate Owl
- Ullet
- Woolert
Barn Owl – Latin Names
- bubo, bubonis, masc. – this is your standard, vanilla “owl”
- noctua, noctuae, fem. – this one is your “night-owl”
- parra, parrae, fem. – this one is your owl as a bird of ill-omen
- strix, strigis fem – a “screech-owl”
- ulula, ululae, fem. → the “screech-owl” again
Scientific Names for Barn Owls
- Tyto capensis capensis
- Tyto capensis cameroonensis
- Tyto capensis damarensis
- Tyto capensis liberatus.
- Tyto novaehollandiae manusi
- Tyto novaehollandiae sororcula
- Tyto novaehollandiae castanops
- Tyto nigrobrunnea – Black-brown barn owl or Taglabu
- Tyto rosenbergii – Sulawesian barn owl
- Tyto sororcula – Small barn owl
- Tyto soumagnei – Madagascar barn owl
- Tyto tenebricosa – Large black barn owl
- Tyto capensis – African or herbal barn owl
- Tyto aurantia – Golden or bismarck barn owl
- Tyto castanops – Tasmanian or burrow barn owl
- Tyto deroepstorffi – Andaman barn owl
- Tyto detorta – Cape Verde Barn owl
- Tyto glaucops – Ash-faced barn owl
- Tyto inexspectata – Minakhas barn owl
- Tyto longimembris – Oriental herbal barn owl
- Tyto manusi – Manus barn owl
- Tyto multipunctata – Small black barn owl
- Tyto navaehollandiae – Australian barn owl
