A barn owl is a pale heart-faced owl that hunts in silence. A barn owl over the field.
The feather edges are combed, which breaks up the air and takes the noise out of the flight. A barn owl can find a mouse under snow by sound alone.
1nounbarn owlA pale heart-faced owl that hunts in silence.
“A barn owl crossed the road at head height.”
barn owl is a bird.
From barn + owl.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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