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unusual facts about barn owl



Eric Knudsen

He is best known for his discovery, along with Masakazu Konishi, of a brain map of sound location in two dimensions in the barn owl, tyto alba.

Lord Howe Boobook

Boobook calls were apparently heard on the island until the 1950s, but during the 1920s boobooks from near Sydney in eastern Australia had been introduced, along with Barn and Masked Owls, in an unsuccessful effort to control the Black Rats that had overrun the island.


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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

His label, Root Strata, is highly regarded by the drone/ambient music community and has an extensive catalog that includes artists such as Tarentel, Grouper, Yellow Swans, Charalambides, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Oneohtrix Point Never, Barn Owl, Starving Weirdos, Gregg Kowalsky, and more.

T. robusta

Tyto robusta, a prehistoric barn-owl species that lived in what is now Monte Gargano in Italy