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However, her unusual colouring means she would die if released into the wild. Baroness Sasa Vonbarth und Kippenruer, who runs the Hereford Owl Rescue, described Sable as "peculiar" but "very ...

Pueo are smaller, stockier and darker in color than the barn owl with brown streaking and a brown, round face whereas barn owls are lanky and light in color with a nearly white, heart-shaped face.

Barn owls come in two shades, reddish brown and white. During a full moon, the white owls fare better than red ones when hunting voles, even though they should be more easily spotted.

The sold-out display saw Eclipse flown alongside another barn owl of typical colouring called Dusk, although Ms Manarin says there is little love lost between the two birds of prey.