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Brown Owl

1

noun

  1. a name (no longer in official use) for Brownie Guider

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


brown owl

2

noun

  1. another name for tawny owl

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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I joined a Brownie pack led by a woman I knew as Brown Owl.

When Brown Owl and I were much older, I met her again: Her name was Katie Firstbrook, she was the aunt of a friend of mine and by that time she was in her 90s.

The habitat of the medium-sized brown owl with white spots on its head and chest and a barred tail is under serious threat from current logging practices and climate change, including increased drought, disease and more extreme wildfires.

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Sitting on the counter is a huge cookie jar in the shape of a brown owl.

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At that moment a brown owl’s call sounded from the opposite wood.

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