Barn Owl Research Paper

Barn Owls are a cosmopolitan species, they can be found in Europe, Africa, southeast Asia, Australia, as well as North, Central, and South America. The Barn Owls prey on any small mammals that live in open habitats a few examples are voles, shrews, mice, bats, rats, birds, and insects such as moths are also eaten. These predators are exposed to harmful chemicals/poisons because of the prey that they eat and where their habitats are found. There are some harmful chemicals and or poisons found in the prey, such as DDT, PCBs, organophosphate pesticides, and heavy metals. DDT is a synthetic organic compound used as an insecticide. PCBs is a group of organic compounds used in the manufacturing of a verity of different products, for example,