Eastern Barn Owl (Tyto javanica)
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Eastern Barn Owl

Tyto javanica (Gmelin, JF, 1788)

It hunts mostly at night, using keen hearing to find small mammals.

Most records: India, Australia, Cambodia

How to identify

Where and when it's recorded

Eastern Barn Owl has been recorded at 478 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 23 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

  1. Fergusson College CampusIndia600 records
  2. GKVK CampusIndia580 records
  3. Centennial ParkAustralia549 records
More places
  1. Kingfisher Park Birdwatchers LodgeAustralia372 records
  2. Ang Trapeang ThmorCambodia274 records
  3. Sangla and AreaNepal167 records
  4. Changaram Wetlands – EzhupunnaIndia155 records
  5. Western Treatment PlantAustralia109 records
  6. Debarawewa LakeSri Lanka95 records
  7. Terrick Terrick National ParkAustralia82 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaAustraliaCambodiaNepalThailandSri LankaMalaysiaSingapore

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The Eastern barn owl (Tyto javanica) is usually considered a subspecies group and together with the American barn owl group, the western barn owl group, and sometimes the Andaman masked owl make up the genus Tyto. The cosmopolitan barn owl is recognized by most taxonomic authorities. A few (including the International Ornithologists' Union) separate them into distinct species, as is done here.

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Questions

Where does the Eastern Barn Owl live?

Its breeding range: Oriental, Australasia, Pacific Ocean: southern, Southeast Asia to Australasia and southwestern Pacific. It is most often recorded in India, Australia and Cambodia.

What family is the Eastern Barn Owl in?

It belongs to the family Barn Owls (Tytonidae), order Strigiformes.

Range

Oriental, Australasia, Pacific Ocean: southern, Southeast Asia to Australasia and southwestern Pacific

Breeding range, IOC World Bird List 15.2

Subspecies · 1
  • Tyto javanica stertens Pakistan, India and n Sri Lanka to sw China and Indochina

Classification

Family
Barn Owls Tytonidae
Genus
Tyto

Other birds in the genus Tyto

Greater Sooty OwlGreater Sooty OwlTyto tenebricosaLesser Sooty OwlLesser Sooty OwlTyto multipunctataMinahasa Masked OwlMinahasa Masked OwlTyto inexspectataTaliabu Masked OwlTaliabu Masked OwlTyto nigrobrunneaMoluccan Masked OwlMoluccan Masked OwlTyto sororculaManus Masked OwlManus Masked OwlTyto manusiGolden Masked OwlGolden Masked OwlTyto aurantiaAustralian Masked OwlAustralian Masked OwlTyto novaehollandiaeSulawesi Masked OwlSulawesi Masked OwlTyto rosenbergiiRed OwlRed OwlTyto soumagneiWestern Barn OwlWestern Barn OwlTyto albaAmerican Barn OwlAmerican Barn OwlTyto furcata
Eastern Barn Owl

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