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horned owl

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noun

  1. any large owl of the genus Bubo, having prominent ear tufts: family Strigidae

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The bird, whose head was peeping out, was a great horned owl, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 21, 2025

As a young kid in Michigan, he’d found an abandoned great horned owl and raised it in his bedroom.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2023

He also cited another possible threat: a confrontation with a great horned owl.

From Seattle Times Feb. 14, 2023

Besides C25, one of her other favorite photographic subjects was a great horned owl nest in Jamaica Plain.

From Salon Dec. 26, 2021

There was a great horned owl that had been sliced out of a tree and came into her rescue.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

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