wood owl

noun

1. See tawny owl
   another name for tawny owl

Example Sentences

The scops is a small owl with aigrettes or "horns," the wood-owl is a large bird without aigrettes.

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The wood-owl is common here, and is presumably well able to hold his castle against all aggressors.

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No, that cannot be; for the wood owl's music is doubtless older than any instrument made by hands to be blown by human lips.

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The only owl that commonly makes itself heard on those mountains is the brown wood-owl (Syrnium indrani).

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Sometimes it had been the gobble of a wild turkey that had lured to danger, again a wood-owl had cried strangely in the night.

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