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Are owls blind during the day?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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Yes. All of them see quite well in the daytime.

Owls can see in the sunlight. They have amazing irises, the colored part of the eye thar controls how much light enters the eye, it can go from closed to less than a pin point to open almost the entire visible part of the eye. Nearly all the owls have been observed hunting in the day time. At night hearing plays as big a part in hunting as vision. There are even "daytime" owls. The pygmy owl of the US Western desserts spaends as much time hunting in the day as at night. The Burrowing owl of the US plains is almost 100% daytime. When I was a kid there was a prairie dog town just a short walk away. That's where the burrowing owl lives, they don't burrow, they live in the dog's burrows, I used to watch the owls standing on the burrow rims and fence posts, they got real long legs for an owl, and all a sudden swoop off and catch some rat or something.

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Owls have excellent night vision, and can also see well during the day.

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Normally barn owls are not diurnal. The exception to that is when they are changing sleeping places during the day.

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It rarely rarely comes out during the day. It hunts only if it's it's starving and is indesperatelyneed of food.

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