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title: "American Barn Owl"
description: "Tyto furcata — Uccelli. The American barn owl (Tyto furcata) is usually considered a subspecies group and together with the western barn owl group, the eastern barn owl group, and sometimes the Andaman masked owl, make up the barn owl, cosmopolitan in range."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/american-barn-owl
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# American Barn Owl

> Tyto furcata — Uccelli. The American barn owl (Tyto furcata) is usually considered a subspecies group and together with the western barn owl group, the eastern barn owl group, and sometimes the Andaman masked owl, make up the barn owl, cosmopolitan in range.

- Scientific name: *Tyto furcata*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `farm` (Fattoria)
- iNaturalist observations: 18849
- iNaturalist taxon: [1578502](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1578502)

## Names

- en: American Barn Owl
- de: Amerika-Schleiereule
- es: Lechuza común americana
- fr: Effraie d'Amérique

## Countries with the most observations

US (11476), MX (1576), AR (770), BR (738), CL (393), EC (367), CA (216), CR (208), CO (196), BO (52), PA (50), HN (49)

## Summary

The American barn owl (Tyto furcata) is usually considered a subspecies group and together with the western barn owl group, the eastern barn owl group, and sometimes the Andaman masked owl, make up the barn owl, cosmopolitan in range.  The barn owl is recognized by most taxonomic authorities. A few (including the International Ornithologists' Union) separate them into distinct species, as is done here. The American barn owl is native to North and South America, and has been introduced to Hawaii.
The ashy-faced owl (T. glaucops) was for some time included in T. alba, and by some authors its populations from the Lesser…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_barn_owl

## Photo

![American Barn Owl](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/american-barn-owl/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101991292

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/american-barn-owl?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).