eagle owl

Historical Examples of eagle owl

• The eagle-owl, could it be proved to belong to us, is so majestic a bird, that it would grace our fauna much.

  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1

  Gilbert White

• Beside the lake an eagle-owl was hooting from the depths of the spruce forest; hoohoo—h-o-o-o—hoohoo.

  A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open

  Theodore Roosevelt

• An eagle-owl sat in a cleft and at twilight uttered its shrill piercing cry.

  Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2)

  Sven Hedin

• They might find it quite as hard to feel contented down in the valley as woodcock and eagle-owl and lynx and star-flowers.

  The Girl From the Marsh Croft

  Selma Lagerlf

• The ascent at first lay through hanging forests, broken here and there by grey crags, the home of the chough and the eagle-owl.

  Wild Spain (Espaa agreste)

  Abel Chapman