As beautiful a barn owl is and everybody loves it but a white shape leaving a barn without any sounds or in a field will be all we ever see of a barn owl in its natural habitat, if we are lucky. If you would see a barn owl closed up you can admire the golden-buff upper parts with a white heart-shaped face. White belly and long feathered legs. The name derived from the owl nesting in barns, ruins and church towers. Her natural sites are cliff holes and hollow trees.

The barn owl does have particular good night vision it also has to have an exceptional good hearing. to find its prey.

Both species, the predator has to have more than a perfect hearing to pinpoint its prey. The prey relies on its fine hearing to survive and listens to any warning sounds.

To enable the barn owl to hunt in the dark successfully it has to have a hearing so sharp to pinpoint the source with incredible accuracy.

The barn owl main diet are mice, shrews and voles. It has to pick up the smallest rustle of a mouse in the undergrowth. The owl can fly absolutely noiseless and is therefore able to come within striking distance of its prey without being heard.

When the owl has located its kill it follows the mouse with every twist and turn. It is unbelievable because of the zig zag movement of a mouse but it aligns its talons along the mouse's body.

The barn owl is equipped with two oval depression in the tightly packed feathers on either side of its beak. Through each depression the sound received goes through a funnel into the ear-hole. These sounds can be picked from a wide area just like a satellite dish concentrates radio waves onto the antenna. This makes the owl having a superior sound location system.

The owl's hearing system is so sophisticated because her ears are on different level. Her right ear is higher than the left ear. Furthermore, the depression on her right tilts upwards to enable her to hear sounds from above. The depression on the left tilts down to pick up sounds from below. Therefore, the owl receive constantly sounds of different level, only sound which are ahead and at eye level, sound the same.

Therefore, she can pinpoint the exactly position of her prey with a whisker.

Another fascinating feature the barn owl has, is her shape of her face. It is heart shaped to increase the flow of sound to her ears, which are on different level.