Birds · Strigiformes · Tytonidae
Puerto Rican Barn Owl
Tyto cavatica
Extinct
No living individual remains anywhere in the world.
The Puerto Rican barn owl is an endemic species of bird that lived on the island of Puerto Rico, in the Americas, and is now extinct. Its disappearance is estimated to have occurred in the Holocene, because of climatic changes in the Pleistocene, but the discovery of remains in 1912 may indicate that it survived for longer. It was described by Alexander Wetmore in 1920. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Hispaniolan barn owl, in which case it is called Tyto glaucops cavatica.
Weight
300 g – 500 g
Size
33 cm – 38 cm
Diet
Carnivore
