The barn owl lives all through South America and Australia, most of Europe, Africa and the United States. The barn owl lives in barns, fields, parks, and old buildings in warm, wet, and cool environments. Barn owls eat mainly rats and mice. To hunt, a barn owl usually flies close to the ground with silent wings. If it sees prey it will spread its talons and strike.
Barn owls eat about three rats or mice a day.
After, owls cough up things like bones and parts of their prey they can't digest. These are called pellets. If you add water to one and carefully peel it apart, you can see everything the owl ate. Barn owls have many weird ways of protecting themselves. Most barn owls live out of the weather in barns and old empty buildings.