Western Barn Owl

Taxonomy

Order

Strigiformes

Family

Tytonidae

Genus

Tyto

Subspecies (10)

• Tyto alba alba

  western and southern Europe; western Canary Islands, and North Africa

• Tyto alba detorta

  Cape Verde Islands

• Tyto alba erlangeri

  Crete and Cyprus to southwestern Iran, northeastern Egypt, and southern Arabian Peninsula

• Tyto alba ernesti

  Corsica and Sardinia

• Tyto alba gracilirostris

  eastern Canary Islands (Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, and Alegranza)

• Tyto alba guttata

  central Europe eastward to Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and southeastward to Albania, Macedonia, Romania, and northeastern Greece

• Tyto alba hypermetra

  Comoros, Europa Island, and Madagascar

• Tyto alba poensis

  Africa south of the Sahara, including Bioko Island (Gulf of Guinea)

• Tyto alba schmitzi

  Madeira and Porto Santo islands (Madeira Archipelago)

• Tyto alba thomensis

  São Tomé (Gulf of Guinea)