The Common Barn Owl is a medium-sized owl species native to the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australasia, and other parts of the world. It is known for its distinctive heart-shaped facial disc and highly acute hearing used for hunting. It has a prominent, ghostly white, heart-shaped facial disc and deep, dark eyes. The upper body and wings are typically a mix of sandy orange and light gray, speckled with white and black, while the underparts are white to cream, also with black spots.

The Common Barn Owl inhabits a wide range of open and wooded areas, from deserts and grasslands to farmlands and urban parks. It can be found across Southeast Asia, Australia, and many Pacific Islands. It is primarily nocturnal, and is a silent and buoyant flyer, relying on its exceptional hearing to locate small mammals on the ground.

Their breeding season is highly flexible and primarily dependent on the local abundance of their main prey (small mammals) Barn owls are cavity nesters and do not build elaborate nests, they use a variety of natural and man-made structures, including hollow trees, cliff fissures, caves, old buildings, building eves and actics, and more importnatly or even conviniently artificial nest boxes. However, there are very few records of them nesting in tree cavities, with only a single known record from Balik Pulau on the Island. A female typically lays a clutch of 3 to 7 white, spotless eggs, with the average being around four or four succesfully hatched.

Its diet consists almost entirely of small rodents, making it a valuable agent for natural pest control in agricultural areas, such as Malaysian oil palm plantations.

In Seberang Perai it is very common throughout with nesting records in towns and industrial parks, in addition to their usual nesting in those artificail owl boxes “planted” all over paddy fields and oil palm plantations

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