The Night Owl by danob

Photography • Creatures • posted on Feb 02, 2009

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Description

The eyes of barn owls are important to the bird's ability to fly and hunt in the dark and the proportionately large eyes with large pupils are obviously a help with this. In addition the retina at the back of each eye is packed with more low light sensitive cells than most other birds. The disadvantage of this is that barn owls can only see in black and white and although their vision is superb, detailed research reveals that the differences between barn owl vision and that of other animals is not as startling as was once supposed, although they are far more sensitive than the eyes most diurnal birds.

Comments (56)

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jeroni

10:30AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

Wonderful and very creative work

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timtripp

10:34AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

excellent

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MagikUnicorn

10:39AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

Beautiful presentation!

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RobyHermida

10:42AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

Wonderful and very creative work...... ROBY ;O)

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flora-crassella

10:42AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

wonderful bird and great photo!!!!

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llacey

10:46AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

Beautiful...cool shot

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evensteven

10:46AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

Killer shot my friend!

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Ac-Dc

11:05AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

so very nice captured

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romanceworks

11:08AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

Barn owls are so fascinating to view. Great shot and info. CC

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ElizaB

11:11AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

beautiful creature beautifully captured...your presentation is always superb

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kenwas

11:15AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

Such a fine creature and shot!

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CavalierLady

11:23AM | Mon, 02 February 2009

Lovely image, Danny! When one flew over me from out of my grandfather's old barn, I was amazed at the absolute total silence, no sound of wing beats at all. Fascinating info about their vision!

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