Scientific name: Tyto alba
Enviroment located in : Rough grassland areas, woodland, hedgerows, dunes & moorland.
sculpture scale: 1:1
sculpture size: L33 W22 W10 cm (on poast) / W11 W19 H29 cm (just owl)
Suitable for outdoor display: yes ( ceramic base, or with legs only)
materials used: High fired ceramics,matt glazes and pewter talons.
With heart-shaped face, buff back and wings and pure white underparts, the barn owl is a distinctive and much-loved countryside bird. Widely distributed across the UK, and indeed the world, this bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s. Nocturnal birds like the barn owl are poorly monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey and, subject to this caveat, numbers may have increased between 1995-2008.
