Each type of owl looks different from the others and has features that are uniquely their own. The showy owl has a tall round head and is mostly white spotted with black and grey. Burrowing owls do as their name sounds, burrow. They have short oval heads and are made up of several shades of brown. Barn owls like to hunt from a perch and like to reside in old buildings suck as old barns and silos. They are also called spirit or ghost owls because of their pale white heart-shaped faces and their small dark eyes. Horned owls have two tufts of feathers on the top of the head that give the appearance of horns, but they are neither horns nor ears, just feathers. They are also called cat owls. Spotted owls are very simple owls. They are mostly brown and covered in small spots of a lighter or darker brown. Their faces sort of look like an apple that has been cut in half.