The heart shaped face acts like a radar and helps it to hear its prey!!
There disc like face acts as a satillite and picks up sounds better.
A barn owl is a medium-sized owl with a heart-shaped white face and dark eyes. They have a distinctive screeching or hissing call and are known for their silent flight due to specialized wing feathers. Barn owls are nocturnal hunters that primarily feed on small mammals like mice and voles.
A barn owl is a medium-large owl. It has a giant heart shaped face completely white. They are normally easily identified, but if it has a brown-ish heart shaped face it is probably a different owl like a grass owl or a greater sooty. Here are what they look like. http://www.wikihow.com/Special:ImportFreeImages?q=barn+owl
Barn owls have heart shaped discs while typical owls have round shaped ones. I think.
The shape of an owls eyeballs are sort of like tubes.
The barn owl's face is heart-shaped, with a distinctive facial disc that enhances its ability to hear and locate prey in low light conditions. This unique shape helps the barn owl funnel sound to its ears, giving it exceptional hearing precision for hunting at night.
Yes, the facial feathers of an owl help direct sound towards their ears, enhancing their ability to hear and locate prey accurately. These specialized feathers work like a satellite dish, funneling sound towards the owl's ears and improving their hearing capabilities.
Well if you think about it and look at their picture and another owls picture a Barn Owl has a white, heart shaped face. brown tuffs of fur is surounding its eyes and its eyes are black. Don't get them mistaken by Masked Owls P.S. Their my fav animals
Owls' eyes face forwards, at least in most known species.
You are probably thinking of an owl.
True owls are one of the two generally accepted families of owls - the other being "barn owls". The barn-owls' main characteristic is the heart-shaped faces. True owls tend to have large heads, short tails, cryptic plumage.and round facial discs around the eyes. They also differ from the barn owls in structural details relating in particular to the sternum and feet. The toes and tarsi of true owls are feathered in some species, and more so in species at higher latitudes
Barn owls have exceptional hearing to locate prey within their habitats. Some adaptions helping this are a face shaped to reflect sound well and asymmetrical ear slits to pin point the origin of a sound. Barn owls also have feathers that allow them to fly silently when sneaking up in prey and a rotatable fourth talon to grab it.