Birds · An occasional visitor rather than a resident.

Barn Owl

Tyto alba

First heard here 22 Sept · last heard 4 Nov · 9 days in the last year · 34 detections on record

Hear it

A clear recording song, mating call, recorded in United Kingdom

Feathers and Fur, xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Trimmed to 20 seconds.

Heard here by the park sensor, 99% match

Raw and a bit distant; the bird was somewhere in the park, not next to the microphone.

What to look for

The western barn owl is a species of barn owl native to Europe, southwestern Asia, and Africa. It was formerly considered a subspecies group together with barn owls native to other parts of the world, but this classification was found to be paraphyletic with respect to some other members of the genus.

Read more on Wikipedia (Western barn owl)

When it has been heard

Detections per day, last 30 days. Heard on 2 of them.

Busiest day so far: Wednesday 4 November, 17 detections between 12:10am and 10:33pm.

Time of day

When it calls, last 30 days. Darker is busier.

Busiest around 12am. From 9 days with hourly counts.

Day	Heard	First	Last	Peak confidence
4 Nov	17	12:10am	10:33pm	99%
3 Nov	2	11:39pm	11:58pm	98%
3 Oct	1	10:56pm	10:56pm	77%
2 Oct	2	12:34am	10:03pm	77%
28 Sept	1	11:38pm	11:38pm	98%
26 Sept	1	12:15am	12:15am	78%
25 Sept	8	12:31am	11:55pm	98%
23 Sept	1	10:47pm	10:47pm	78%
22 Sept	1	2:14am	2:14am	95%

Detections are automatic and can be wrong.