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Barn owl   /bɑrn aʊl/   Listen
Barn owl

noun
1.
Mottled buff and white owl often inhabiting barns and other structures; important in rodent control.  Synonym: Tyto alba.






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"Barn owl" Quotes from Famous Books



... come every morning at eleven o'clock to the cobble-stone wall and ascend it exactly as he ascends trees, peering into chinks among the moss and the pennywort. He seemed almost as fond of these walls as of his tree trunks. He came regularly at eleven and again at three in the afternoon, and a barn owl went by with a screech every evening a little after eight. The starlings told the time of the year as accurately as the best chronometer at Whitehall. When I saw the last chimney swallow, November 30, they went by to their sleeping-trees about three o'clock in the afternoon—a long night, a short ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies



Words linked to "Barn owl" :   genus Tyto, Tyto, bird of night, Tyto alba, owl, bird of Minerva, hooter



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