The tawny owl (Strix aluco), also called the brown owl, is a stocky, medium-sized owl in the family Strigidae. It is commonly found in woodlands across...
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owl or desert tawny owl (Strix hadorami), formerly known as Hume's owl, is a species of owl. It is closely related to the more widespread tawny owl and...
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scops owl (Otus lettia), collared scops owl (Otus bakkamoena), northern hawk-owls, tawny owls, Eurasian pygmy owls, boreal owls and long-eared owls. Diurnal...
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The tawny fish owl (Ketupa flavipes) is a fish owl species in the family known as typical owls, Strigidae. It is native from southern Nepal to Bangladesh...
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owl (Asio otus), also known as the northern long-eared owl or, more informally, as the lesser horned owl or cat owl, is a medium-sized species of owl...
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John Latham. Its specific epithet is derived from Latin strix 'owl' and oides 'form'. Tawny frogmouths belong to the frogmouth genus Podargus, which includes...
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The barred owl (Strix varia), also known as the northern barred owl, striped owl or, more informally, hoot owl or eight-hooter owl, is a North American...
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The tawny owl (Strix aluco) is an opportunistic and generalized predator. Peak hunting activity tends to occur largely between dusk to midnight, with...
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The tawny owl was first described by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae in 1758, under its current scientific...
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as the eagle-owl. Tawny and brown fish owls are both slightly smaller than co-occurring Eurasian eagle-owls, and Blakiston’s fish owls are similar or...
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Tawny owls are monogamous and territorial year around. Young birds select territories and look for mates in autumn and tend to be very vocal, especially...
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flight: white owl, silver owl, demon owl, ghost owl, death owl, night owl, rat owl, church owl, cave owl, stone owl, monkey-faced owl, hissing owl, hobgoblin...
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today's North American spotted owl or the European tawny owl; the diversity in size and ecology found in typical owls today developed only subsequently...
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The tawny-browed owl (Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. The tawny-browed...
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Raquel in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, between 1988 and 2003, Tawny Owl in the animated series The Animals of Farthing Wood and as Mrs. Chapman...
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snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus), also known as the polar owl, the white owl and the Arctic owl, is a large, white owl of the true owl family. Snowy owls are...
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Strix (bird) (redirect from Earless owl)
Brown wood owl, S. leptogrammica Tawny owl, S. aluco Maghreb owl, S. mauritanica Himalayan owl, S. nivicolum Desert owl, S. hadorami Omani owl, S. butleri...
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wood owl is a medium-sized owl which has the typical rounded head of the genus Strix similar to the Palearctic tawny owl or Holarctic great grey owl, with...
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Tawny (also called tenné) is a light brown to brownish-orange color. Look up tawny in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The word means "tan-colored", from...
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owls have also been reported as predators of barn owls, ranging from the scarcely larger tawny owl to the golden eagle. The goshawk and the eagle owl...
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longer, slimmer wings: the long-eared owl has wings shaped more like those of a tawny owl. The long-eared owl generally has different habitat preferences...
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Eagle Owl, Bubo bubo, in Syria. Zoology in the Middle East, 33(1), 21-26. Obuch, J. (1994). On the food of eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) and tawny owl (Strix...
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Himalayas to Korea and Taiwan. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the tawny owl, but is separated from that species due to its distinctive call, darker...
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The tawny-bellied screech owl (Megascops watsonii) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French...
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Brown Owl is a synonym for the tawny owl. It may also refer to: a title often given to the adult pack leader in Girlguiding UK Brown Owl, New Zealand,...
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hunt created by Régis Hauser in 1993; see the Golden Owl quest "La chouette hulotte" (the tawny owl), a piece for solo piano in Catalogue d'oiseaux (1956–58)...
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Strix hadorami, giving it the new common name desert tawny owl (subsequently shortened to desert owl by some authors). The IUCN lists Strix omanensis (now...
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The true owls or typical owls (family Strigidae) are one of the two generally accepted families of owls, the other being the barn owls (Tytonidae). This...
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species of owl in order Strigiformes; they are distributed among 25 genera in two families. The 20 species of genera Tyto and Phodilus, the barn owls, are in...
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The little owl (Athene noctua), also known as the owl of Athena or owl of Minerva, is a bird that inhabits much of the temperate and warmer parts of Europe...
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