Barn Owl vs Japanese White-eye

Tyto alba 비교 대상 Zosterops japonicus

Side-by-Side Comparison

속성 Barn Owl Japanese White-eye
학명 Tyto alba Zosterops japonicus
Strigiformes Passeriformes
Tytonidae Zosteropidae
보전 상태 Least Concern Least Concern
체장 35.0 cm (13.8 in) 11.5 cm (4.5 in)
날개 폭 90.0 cm (35.4 in) 17.0 cm (6.7 in)
체중 350.0 g (12.35 oz) 11.0 g (0.39 oz)
식성 Almost exclusively small mammals, especially voles and mice. Hunts using extraordinary hearing to locate prey … Insects, nectar, and fruit. Active gleaner that flits through foliage and visits flowers. Important pollinator …
산란 수 2-16 2-6
Population Trend

Size Comparison

Body Length
Barn Owl 35.0 cm
Japanese White-eye 11.5 cm
날개 폭
Barn Owl 90.0 cm
Japanese White-eye 17.0 cm
체중
Barn Owl 350.0 g
Japanese White-eye 11.0 g

Habitat Comparison

공유 서식지

Barn Owl only

Japanese White-eye only

없음

Barn Owl

Open farmland, grasslands, and marshes. Nests in barns, church steeples, tree cavities, and purpose-built nest boxes.

Japanese White-eye

Broadleaf evergreen forests, gardens, parks, and suburban areas. Highly adaptable and common in East Asian gardens.

Song & Call Comparison

Barn Owl

노래

An eerie, drawn-out rasping shriek 'shreeeeee' — not a hoot. Also gives hissing, snoring, and bill-snapping when disturbed. Chicks call with a persistent rasping hunger call.

Japanese White-eye

노래

Sweet, high-pitched 'tsee-tsee-tsee' whistle and soft melodic warbling. Flocks produce a continuous tinkling chorus. Alarm is a sharper 'tset'. Song is gentle and rhythmic.

Geographic Range & Migration

Barn Owl

The most widespread owl and one of the most widespread land birds, found on every continent except Antarctica.

Japanese White-eye

East Asia including Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Introduced to Hawaii and other Pacific islands.

보전 상태

Least Concern

Barn Owl

Least Concern

Japanese White-eye

How to Tell Them Apart

Barn Owl

깃털

Pale golden-buff upperparts with delicate grey mottling. Pure white heart-shaped face and white to pale buff underparts. Ghostly white appearance in flight.

부리

Pale pinkish hooked bill nearly concealed by the facial disc

Japanese White-eye

깃털

Olive-green upperparts with a bright white eye-ring. Yellow throat and undertail coverts. Greyish-white belly.

부리

Thin, pointed, slightly decurved dark bill

About These Birds

Barn Owl

헛간올빼미는 어떤 올빼미보다 가장 비대칭적인 귀를 가지고 있어, 동물계에서 가장 정밀한 청각 위치 파악 능력을 지닙니다. 소리만으로 완전한 어둠 속에서 먹이를 잡을 수 있습니다. 헛간올빼미의 독특한 하트 모양 얼굴은 포물면 접시처럼 작용하여 소리를 어긋난 귀로 집중시킵니다.

Japanese White-eye

일본동박새는 동아시아 전역에 서식하는 작고 활발한 새이다. 뚜렷한 흰 눈 고리가 특징이며 올리브색과 녹색의 밝은 깃털을 가진다. 꽃의 꿀과 작은 곤충, 과일을 먹으며 숲, 공원, 정원 등 다양한 환경에서 생활한다.

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