American Barn Owl Range Map

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Migration

Nonmigratory. Although young American Barn Owls may disperse hundreds of miles from where they hatched, adults don’t seem to migrate seasonally, even in the farthest-north parts of their range.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology (2024) Distribution map for American Barn Owl Tyto furcata. Modified accounting for taxonomic differences from BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2021) Bird species distribution maps of the world. Version 2021.1.

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