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The subspecies of the Barn Owl scientific name Tyto alba are listed in the Handbook of Birds of the World Volume 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds.

There are nineteen subspecies, which are listed in a table in which the following details about each subspecies are given: name of the subspecies and its image, detailed description, range, and synonyms.

These subspecies will now be named in sequence with details of the range of the subspecies. List begins:

one. Tyto alba alba (Scopoli, 1769), the nominate subspecies, found in Western Europe from the British Isles south to the Maghreb and east along Mediterranean coastal regions to northwestern Turkey in the north and the Nile in the south, where it reaches upstream to northeastern Sudan. Also the Aïr Mountains in the Sahara of Niger, the Balearic Islands and Sicily in the Mediterranean, and the West Canary Islands.

two. Tyto alba furcata (Temminck, 1827), found in Cuba, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands. However, it is rare or possibly extirpated on Grand Cayman.

three. Tyto alba tuidara (J.E. Gray, 1829), found in the South American lowlands east of the Andes and south of the Amazon River all the way south to Tierra del Fuego. Also found on the Falkland Islands.

four. Tyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838), found in Central Europe north of the Alps from the Rhine to Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine, and south to Romania, northeastern Greece and the southern Balkans.

five. Tyto alba punctatissima (G. R. Grey, 1838), found in North America from southern Canada south to central Mexico; Bermuda, the Bahamas, Hispaniola; introduced to Lord Howe Island (where it was extirpated) and in 1958 to Hawaii (where it still lives).

six. Tyto alba poensis (Fraser, 1842), which is endemic to the Galápagos islands, located around the equator 900 kms into the Eastern Pacific, off the west coast of Ecuador.

seven. Tyto alba thomensis (Hartlaub, 1852), which is endemic to Bioko, an island of the nation of Equatorial Guinea, located off the coast of Cameroon.

eight. Tyto alba affinis (Blyth, 1862), which is endemic to São Tomé Island, an island on the Equator off the coast of Central Africa, part of the nation of São Tomé and Príncipe.

nine. Tyto alba guatemalae (Ridgway, 1874), found in Guatemala or southern Mexico through Central America to Panama or northern Colombia; and the Pearl Islands.

ten. Tyto alba bargei (Hartert, 1892), which is endemic to Curaçao and maybe Bonaire in the West Indies.

eleven. Tyto alba contempta (Hartert, 1898), found in the Northeastern Andes from western Venezuela through eastern Colombia south to Peru, though it is rare in the Cordillera Central and Cordillera Occidental.

twelve. Tyto alba schmitzi (Hartert, 1900), endemic to Madeira and Porto Santo islands in the eastern Atlantic.

thirteen. Tyto alba ernesti (Kleinschmidt, 1901), endemic to the islands of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean.

fourteen. Tyto alba gracilirostris (Hartert, 1905), endemic to the East Canary Islands, namely Chinijo Archipelago, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, and perhaps formerly also on Lobos.

fifteen. Tyto alba detorta (Hartert, 1913), endemic to the Cape Verde Islands, an archipelago and island country of West Africa, located in the central Atlantic Ocean.

sixteen. Tyto alba erlangeri (W. L. Sclater, 1921), Crete and southern Aegean islands to Cyprus; the Near and Middle East including the Arabian Peninsula coastlands, south to Sinai and east to southwestern Iran.

seventeen. Tyto alba hellmayri (Griscom & Greenway, 1937), found in Northeastern lowlands of South American, from eastern Venezuela south to the Amazon River.

eighteen. Tyto alba bondi (Parks & Phillips, 1978), endemic to Roatán and Guanaja islands, which are part of the Bay Islands, off the northern coast of Honduras.

nineteen. Tyto alba niveicauda (Parks & Phillips, 1978), endemic to Isla de la Juventud, one of the islands of Cuba, south of Havana.

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