Barn Owl Family

by Barry Kent MacKay

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$1,500

Dimensions

24.000 x 18.000 x 1.500 inches

Title

Barn Owl Family

Artist

Barry Kent MacKay

Medium

Painting - Oil On Birch Panel

Description

The world’s most widely distributed owl species, the Barn Owl (Tyto alba) is found on every continent except Antarctica, with nearly 30 different geographic variations, or subspecies, identified. I’ve shown one from eastern North America. Ontario, where I live, is the northern limit of its range here in Eastern North America. They are quite variable in appearance (colour, shape, size). They are classified in a family, Tytonidae, with some twenty species, that is distinct from all other owls, in the family, Strigidae. Barn Owls do, as the name implies, often nest in human-made structures, certainly including barns, where they endear themselves to farmers by consuming large numbers of rodents, although as I indicate in the painting, they prey is highly varied – essentially anything they can overcome. Incubation of eggs begins with the first laid, so that the ages of the chicks is staggered, and as much as several weeks can separate the age of the oldest from the youngest. The species pairs for life or until the loss of a mate. The painting is in oils on Russian birch panel and is 18 by 24 inches.

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