horned owl
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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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