Puerto Rican barn owl

The Puerto Rican barn owl (Tyto cavatica) is an extinct species of barn owl that inhabited the island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.^[1] It is sometimes considered to be a subspecies of the ashy-faced owl (Tyto glaucops).

Puerto Rican barn owl Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Holocene
Tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus
Conservation status
Extinct
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Strigiformes
Family:	Tytonidae
Genus:	Tyto
Species:	†T. cavatica
Binomial name
†Tyto cavatica Wetmore, 1920[1]