Rivero's barn owl

Rivero's barn owl; Temporal range: Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Strigiformes
Family:	Tytonidae
Genus:	Tyto
Species:	T. riveroi
Binomial name
	Tyto riveroi; Arredondo, 1972

The Rivero's barn owl (Tyto riveroi) is an extinct species of barn owl that was very large — bigger than any extant barn owl species, and possibly larger than any known owl alive today.^[1] It is thought to have been nearly as large as (but probably not as tall as) another extinct gigantic owl, Ornimegalonyx.^[2]

References

↑ Arredondo, Oscar (December 1972). "Especie Nueva de Lechuza Gigante (Strigiformes: Tytonidae) del Pleistoceno Cubano" (PDF). Separata del Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales (in Spanish). 30 (124/125): 129–140.
↑ Arredondo, Oscar. "The Great Predatory Birds of the Pleistocene of Cuba" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology: 169–187. Retrieved 13 July 2017. "Reprinted from: "Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore," Storrs L. Olson, editor, 21 May 1976"

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[Arredondo1-1] Arredondo, Oscar (December 1972). "Especie Nueva de Lechuza Gigante (Strigiformes: Tytonidae) del Pleistoceno Cubano" (PDF). Separata del Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales (in Spanish). 30 (124/125): 129–140.

[Arredondo2-2] Arredondo, Oscar. "The Great Predatory Birds of the Pleistocene of Cuba" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology: 169–187. Retrieved 13 July 2017. "Reprinted from: "Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore," Storrs L. Olson, editor, 21 May 1976"