title: Current expansion of the Barn Owl (&lt;i&gt;Tyto alba&lt;/i&gt;) (Tytonidae, Aves) in Northern Eurasia
abstract: In the north of Eurasia, until the mid-twentieth century, the Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ) was sporadically distributed only in the Baltic states, in the west of Belarus and Ukraine, and in Moldova. Once, in 1942, a vagrant bird was caught in Turkmenistan also. At the end of the 20 th century, reports appeared of rare recordings of barn owls in Eastern Europe, and since the beginning of the 21 st century, pronounced expansion of these birds has been noted, observed in the south of Ukraine, Crimea, Cis
journal: Povolzhskiy Journal of Ecology