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Tawny owl   /tˈɑni aʊl/   Listen
Tawny owl

noun
1.
Reddish-brown European owl having a round head with black eyes.  Synonym: Strix aluco.






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"Tawny owl" Quotes from Famous Books



... owl eat more expensive food, though, seeing that they come to us—at any rate in the south country—only in winter, and even then irregularly, they can do no damage to young game birds, and are probably incapable of capturing old. The worst offender among the residents is the tawny owl, to which I find the following reference in the famous Malmesbury MSS.: "Common here ... a great destroyer of young game and leverets ... they sit in ivy bushes during the day, and I have known one remain, altho' its mate was killed, in the same tree, in such a state of torpor did it appear ...
— Birds in the Calendar • Frederick G. Aflalo



Words linked to "Tawny owl" :   hooter, genus Strix, bird of Minerva, owl, Strix, bird of night, Strix aluco



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