American Barn Owl

Taxonomy

Order

Strigiformes

Family

Tytonidae

Genus

Tyto

Vocalizations

Subspecies (10)

• Tyto furcata bargei

  Curaçao

• Tyto furcata bondi

  Bay Islands off northern Honduras (Roatán and Guanaja)

• Tyto furcata contempta

  western Colombia to Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru

• Tyto furcata furcata

  Cuba, Cayman Islands, and Jamaica

• Tyto furcata guatemalae

  western Guatemala to Panama including Pearl Islands, and Colombia

• Tyto furcata hellmayri

  Isla Margarita (off Venezuela), Trinidad and Tobago, and the Guianas to northern Brazil

• Tyto furcata niveicauda

  Isla de la Juventud

• Tyto furcata pratincola

  southern Canada to northern Mexico, Bermuda, Bahamas, and Hispaniola

• Tyto furcata punctatissima

  Galapagos

• Tyto furcata tuidara

  Brazil south of the Amazon River to Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands