American barn owl
Scientific name: Tyto furcata (Temminck, 1827)
Overview
The American barn owl 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 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.
From the Wikipedia article “American barn owl”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where it lives
The Catalogue of Life records it in: Caribbean; Middle America; North America; South America.
Common names
Names in other languages (5)
- French
- Effraie d'Amérique
- German
- Amerika-Schleiereule, Amerikaschleiereule
- Japanese
- アメリカメンフクロウ
- Persian
- جغد انباری آمریکایی
- Portuguese
- coruja-da-igreja
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names and range.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — names in other languages. Q468015, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “American barn owl”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
- Range map — Cephas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026