Tyto alba

Western Barn Owl - species of bird. This taxon is the 1169^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 358^th most popular taxon in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Tyto alba” in Italian Wikipedia has 32.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.6 points.

This article has the best quality in Serbian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

In June 2025 the article “Tyto alba” was edited by 2 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (9438^th place).

Since the creation of article “Tyto alba”, its content was written by 136 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 2071 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Western Barn Owl is on the 358^th place in local ranking of taxon in Italian Wikipedia and on the 1169^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 258 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 3943 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1156 in September 2006
• Global: #1126 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #10204 in July 2020
• Global: #27624 in June 2025

There are 48 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Serbian (sr) Кукувија		91.5082
2	Portuguese (pt) Coruja-das-torres		84.9453
3	English (en) Western barn owl		84.0598
4	Greek (el) Τυτώ		81.4936
5	Japanese (ja) メンフクロウ		75.7001
6	Turkish (tr) Bayağı peçeli baykuş		75.6246
7	German (de) Schleiereule		74.1436
8	Catalan (ca) Òliba comuna		68.1031
9	Slovak (sk) Plamienka driemavá		61.1617
10	French (fr) Effraie des clochers		51.357

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Tyto alba" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Effraie des clochers		1 187 007
2	German (de) Schleiereule		1 096 739
3	Spanish (es) Tyto alba		910 204
4	Italian (it) Tyto alba		784 750
5	Portuguese (pt) Coruja-das-torres		575 219
6	Russian (ru) Обыкновенная сипуха		494 472
7	Czech (cs) Sova pálená		364 464
8	Japanese (ja) メンフクロウ		353 173
9	Dutch (nl) Kerkuil		322 694
10	English (en) Western barn owl		307 921

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Tyto alba" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Western barn owl		9 168
2	French (fr) Effraie des clochers		5 814
3	Spanish (es) Tyto alba		5 509
4	German (de) Schleiereule		4 104
5	Italian (it) Tyto alba		3 655
6	Japanese (ja) メンフクロウ		3 251
7	Russian (ru) Обыкновенная сипуха		3 122
8	Portuguese (pt) Coruja-das-torres		2 295
9	Indonesian (id) Serak jawa		2 249
10	Dutch (nl) Kerkuil		1 775

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Tyto alba" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Schleiereule		267
2	French (fr) Effraie des clochers		194
3	Italian (it) Tyto alba		136
4	Dutch (nl) Kerkuil		131
5	Hebrew (he) תנשמת לבנה		96
6	Russian (ru) Обыкновенная сипуха		81
7	Spanish (es) Tyto alba		80
8	Hungarian (hu) Gyöngybagoly		76
9	Norwegian (no) Tårnugle		66
10	Danish (da) Slørugle		59

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Tyto alba" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 원숭이올빼미		5
2	English (en) Western barn owl		2
3	Spanish (es) Tyto alba		2
4	French (fr) Effraie des clochers		2
5	Italian (it) Tyto alba		2
6	Serbian (sr) Кукувија		2
7	Estonian (et) Loorkakk		1
8	Hebrew (he) תנשמת לבנה		1
9	Dutch (nl) Kerkuil		1
10	Norwegian (no) Tårnugle		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Tyto alba" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Western barn owl		542
2	Ukrainian (uk) Сипуха крапчаста		373
3	German (de) Schleiereule		364
4	Italian (it) Tyto alba		258
5	French (fr) Effraie des clochers		246
6	Spanish (es) Tyto alba		201
7	Catalan (ca) Òliba comuna		197
8	Russian (ru) Обыкновенная сипуха		170
9	Dutch (nl) Kerkuil		132
10	Danish (da) Slørugle		110

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic هامة
az	Azerbaijani Adi alabayquş
be	Belarusian Сіпуха звычайная
bg	Bulgarian Забулена сова
ca	Catalan Òliba comuna
cs	Czech Sova pálená
da	Danish Slørugle
de	German Schleiereule
el	Greek Τυτώ
en	English Western barn owl
eo	Esperanto Turstrigo
es	Spanish Tyto alba
et	Estonian Loorkakk
eu	Basque Hontz zuri eurasiar
fa	Persian جغد انبار
fi	Finnish Tornipöllö
fr	French Effraie des clochers
gl	Galician Curuxa común
he	Hebrew תנשמת לבנה
hi	Hindi श्वेतोलूक
hr	Croatian Kukuvija
hu	Hungarian Gyöngybagoly
id	Indonesian Serak jawa
it	Italian Tyto alba
ja	Japanese メンフクロウ
ka	Georgian ბუხრინწა
ko	Korean 원숭이올빼미
lt	Lithuanian Paprastoji liepsnotoji pelėda
ms	Malay Serak Biasa
nl	Dutch Kerkuil
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Tårnugle
no	Norwegian Tårnugle
pl	Polish Płomykówka (zwyczajna)
pt	Portuguese Coruja-das-torres
ro	Romanian Strigă
ru	Russian Обыкновенная сипуха
simple	Simple English Common barn owl
sk	Slovak Plamienka driemavá
sl	Slovenian Pegasta sova
sr	Serbian Кукувија
sv	Swedish Tornuggla
ta	Tamil கூகை ஆந்தை
th	Thai นกแสก
tr	Turkish Bayağı peçeli baykuş
uk	Ukrainian Сипуха крапчаста
uz	Uzbek Tyto alba
vi	Vietnamese Cú lợn lưng xám
zh	Chinese 西仓鸮

Best Rank

Italian: #10204 07.2020

Global: #27624 06.2025

Best Rank

Italian: #1156 09.2006

Global: #1126 03.2011

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