wood owl

British  

noun

1. another name for tawny owl

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Example Sentences

But Eug�ne called me back, saying, "Come and listen to the wood owl."

From Marie Claire by Raphael, John N.

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 Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

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 Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

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 Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

One is nearly the size of the common wood owl.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles