Burung hantu (Owls)
Eastern Barn Owl
Tyto javanica
- tidak umum
- 48 km/h
- Belum dievaluasi
A ghost-pale shape gliding silent and low over paddy stubble at dusk, dropping with a long-legged plunge onto a single sound in the grass. The barn owl of the East, split at last from its Western cousin.
- Populasi
- Population is very large; locally encouraged as a natural rodent controller in rice and oil-palm regions.
- Habitat
- Open country such as farmland, grassland and lightly wooded terrain; also heath, rocky areas with caves, and semi-desert, often near villages and cities. Usually below 2,000 m elevation, occasionally to 3,000 m in the tropics.
- Fakta menarik
- The Eastern Barn Owl hunts almost entirely by sound, using its asymmetrically positioned ear openings and heart-shaped facial disc to pinpoint scurrying rodents with enough precision to strike accurately in total darkness.
- Sebaran
- Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia through Indonesia/Malay Peninsula to Australia, New Zealand (self-colonized/established), and many Pacific islands.
- Makanan
- Primarily small terrestrial mammals — rodents (mice, rats, voles) and small marsupials — located mainly by sound; also takes bats, small birds, lizards, frogs, insects and spiders. Can eat prey equal to roughly 20-25% of its own body weight in a night.
- Ukuran
- 0,34 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,9 m
