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Jurga Ivanauskaitė. Jurga Ivanauskaitė (14 November 1961 – 17 February 2007) was a Lithuanian writer. [1]She was born in Vilnius, Lithuania.While studying at the Vilnius Art Academy, she wrote her first book, The Year of the Lilies of the Valley, published in 1985.
Tyto, the largest genus of birds in Tytonidae, and particularly these species in that genus: Three species that are sometimes considered to be a single species known as barn owl or common barn owl: Western barn owl Tyto alba, from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East; American barn owl Tyto furcata, from the Americas
Greek Catholic Church of Holy Trinity in Vilnius. Gavelis grew up in its courtyard. Ričardas Gavelis was born on 8 October 1950, [a] in a Red Cross maternity hospital in Vilnius to mathematician Vytautas Gavelis (1928–1991) and physicist Vanda Gavelienė (née Riaubaitė) (1926–2013). [7]
The species was named by Allan Octavian Hume after the collector Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff who shot it at Aberdeen, Andamans. Hume placed it in the genus Strix. [4] Some authors consider this bird to be a subspecies of the barn owl/western barn owl (Tyto alba), [2] or the eastern barn owl (Tyto javanica), [3] but König, in his Owls of the World, recognizes it as a distinct species; one ...
The western barn owl (Tyto alba) is usually considered a subspecies group and together with the American barn owl group, the eastern barn owl group, and sometimes the Andaman masked owl make up the barn owl. The cosmopolitan barn owl is recognized by most taxonomic authorities.
These species include barn owls (Tyto alba), northern saw-whet owls (Aegolius acadicus), and long-eared owls (Asio otus). The barn owl (Tyto alba) is the most commonly studied for sound localization because they use similar methods to humans for interpreting interaural time differences in the horizontal plane. [4]
The majority of the 20 living species of barn owls are poorly known. Some, like the red owl, have barely been seen or studied since their discovery, in contrast to the western barn owl Tyto alba, which is one of the best-known owl species in the world. However, some subspecies of the western barn owl possibly deserve to be separate species, but ...
New Ireland lesser barn owl (Tyto cf. alba/aurantiaca) found in New Ireland [11] New Caledonian barn owl (Tyto letocarti) found in New Caledonia - tentatively placed here; Puerto Rican barn owl (Tyto cavatica) found in Puerto Rico - may still have existed up to 1912; possibly a subspecies of the ashy-faced owl (Tyto glaucops)