wood owl

Historical Examples

• The largest appears nearly the size of the English wood-owl.

  Wanderings in South America

  Charles Waterton

• Sometimes it had been the gobble of a wild turkey that had lured to danger, again a wood-owl had cried strangely in the night.

  The Crossing

  Winston Churchill

• The scops is a small owl with aigrettes or "horns," the wood-owl is a large bird without aigrettes.

  A Bird Calendar for Northern India

  Douglas Dewar

• The wood-owl is common here, and is presumably well able to hold his castle against all aggressors.

  Birds and Man

  W. H. Hudson