wood owl
Britishnoun
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He cut down the old elm tree, too, to which the wood owl used to come on summer evenings.
From Marie Claire by John N. Raphael
It is not so everywhere, certainly not in my friend's Gloucestershire village, where the white owl is unknown, while the brown or wood owl is quite common.
From Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
At Willersey, a Mr Andrews, a lover of birds who owns a large garden and orchard in the village, gave me an entertaining account of a pet wood owl he once had.
From Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
He could hear the distant lowing of the wild bulls, and the crowing of the cocks at the hacienda, mingled with the lugubrious notes of the great wood owl, perched near him upon a branch.
From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Mayne Reid
The larger wood owl is supposed to have a different disposition, to be a dweller in deep woods, in love with "seclusion, gloom, and retirement,"—a thorough hermit.
From Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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