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Western Barn Owl Tyto alba

Classification

Tytonidae [family]
Tyto [genus] (2)
alba [species]

Classification

Tytonidae [family]
Tyto [genus] (2)
alba [species]

Presence

Presence status Incorrectly reported (3b)
Notes on presence status Voous (1965) and Prins et al. (2009) recorded Tyto alba for the Dutch Caribbean islands. According to Gill et al. (2024) the American Barn Owl is one of three genetic and morphological clades of classical cosmopolitan Barn Owl T. alba and should be named American barn owl Tyto furcata subsp. (Aliabadian et al. 2016, König & Weick 2009, Nijman & Aliabadian 2013, Uva et al. 2018).

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