Acadian owl
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Acadian owl
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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By rare luck you may hear the little Acadian owl filing his invisible saw, but you are likelier to see him and mistake him for a clot of last year's leaves lodged midway in their fall to earth.
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In the course of another ten minutes a light was seen glowing through the trees, and immediately the abbé hooted thrice, imitating perfectly the note of the little Acadian owl.
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It has since been ascertained that this singular note proceeds from the Acadian Owl.
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