What is the better known name of the bird Tyto Alba?
Tyto heart-shaped facial disc, and lack the ear-like tufts of feathers found in many other owls. "Tyto" owls tend to be larger than bay-owls. The name "tyto (τυτώ)" is onomatopeic Greek for owl. Tyto Tyto is a genus of birds consisting of true barn owls, grass owls and masked owls that collectively make up all the species within the subfamily Tytoninae of the barn owl family, Tytonidae. Throughout their evolutionary history, "Tyto" owls have shown a better capability to colonize islands than other owls. Several such island forms have become extinct, some long ago, but some in comparatively recent times. A
Tyto robusta been taken on occasion (or preferably by "T. robusta", whatever its taxonomic and systematic status). It is unlikely that ponderous owls on an island abundant in mammalian prey would evolve good bird-hunting skills, but theoretically the local pigeons ("Columba omnisanctorum" or "C. pisana") as well as the smaller "Tyto balearica" might have been possible prey also. Tyto robusta Tyto robusta was a prehistoric barn-owl. It lived at what is now Monte Gargano in Italy, and was an island throughout much of the Neogene when sea levels were higher. The owl's remains date back to the Miocene-Pliocene boundary 5.5 to 5