Systematics
Living and recently extinct species - and some notable subspecies - of barn owls are:
- Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa
- Lesser Sooty Owl Tyto multipunctata
- Australian Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae
- Tasmanian Masked Owl Tyto (novaehollandiae) castanopsis
- Golden Masked Owl Tyto aurantia
- Moluccan Masked Owl Tyto sororcula or Tyto (novaehollandiae) sororcula
- Buru Masked Owl Tyto (sororcula) cayelii or Tyto (novaehollandiae) cayelii - long known only by two specimens collected in 1898 and 1921 until a voice recording in 2009 confirmed its further existence
- Seram Masked Owl, Tyto almae
- Manus Masked Owl Tyto manusi or Tyto (novaehollandiae) manusi
- Taliabu Masked Owl Tyto nigrobrunnea
- Minahassa Masked Owl Tyto inexspectata
- Sulawesi Owl or Sulawesi Masked-owl, Tyto rosenbergii
- Peleng Masked Owl Tyto rosenbergii pelengensis - probably extinct (mid-20th century)
- Barn Owl or Common Barn Owl, Tyto alba
- Eastern Barn Owl Tyto (alba) delicatula
- Andaman Masked Owl or Andaman Barn Owl Tyto (alba) deroepstorffi
- Ashy-faced Owl Tyto glaucops
- Red Owl Tyto soumagnei
- African Grass Owl Tyto capensis
- Eastern Grass Owl Tyto longimembris
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