American Barn Owl

BARN OWLS are most perfectly constructed machines for transforming fur into feathers. Young birds will eat their weight in mice every twenty-four hours. One youngster was fed eight mice and only backed down on the ninth which was absorbed all but the tail!

A family studied by Finley, in an old barn, at three weeks, were the funniest, fuzziest, monkey-face little creatures. They blinked, snapped their bills and hissed like a box full of snakes.

Barn Owls are nowhere common, due probably to their odd appearance which tempts the ignorant to kill them.

Range

Locally distributed over most of the United States.