tawny owl

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tawny owl

An owl (Strix aluco) of Eurasia and North Africa, having chestnut brown or gray plumage with mottled markings.

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tawny owl

(Animals) a European owl, Strix aluco, having a reddish-brown or grey plumage, black eyes, and a round head. Also called: brown owl or wood owl

Tawny Owl

(Other Non-sporting Hobbies) a name (no longer in official use) for an assistant Brownie Guider

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tawny owl - reddish-brown European owl having a round head with black eyes

Strix aluco

bird of Minerva, bird of night, owl, hooter - nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes

genus Strix, Strix - owls lacking ear tufts

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Kauz Waldkauz

allocco

tawny owl

n → Waldkauz m; Tawny Owl (in Brownies) → Helferin f → der Wichtelmutter

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tawny owl

n → allocco

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A young tawny owl Picture: ANDY HAY (RSPB-IMAGES.COM)

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She will be handing over the reins to Tawny Owl Liz Egginton.

End of era for Brown Owl Sandra

The tawny owl or brown owl is a stocky, medium-sized owl commonly found in woodlands across most of the UK.

HOW TAWNY OWLS MEASURE UP

TROY the tawny owl doesn't give a hoot about flying high - because he's scared of heights.

OWL THAT'S SCARED OF HEIGHTS; Low-level flying only

Each member built a blue tit box from scratch and, by the end of the session, and also erected a tawny owl box donated by the Glamorgan Bird Club at the Vale of Glamorgan council-owned park, near Barry.

Schoolchildren help the birds

Beryl the Bassett Hound, 16, and Wol, the four-year-old tawny owl, became inseparable after their owner realised they had a shared interest...

T-wit, t-woof; DOG & OWL PAL UP ON SOFA

People who ring the hotline are played a recorded message of a tawny owl and asked to listen out for it in the garden then make a note if they hear the bird.

PETS AND THEIR PEOPLE : Do give a hoot and save owls

A clergywoman has become the latest victim of a brooding tawny owl that has attacked five people in the south Shropshire town of Clun while protecting its young.

Torn-again Christian at owl's mercy

In one, a tawny owl is caught flying through Sussex woodland with a stricken dormouse firmly clasped in its beak.

Wild about Britain; LIFE SCENE THROUGH TOP SNAPPERS' LENSES

A brown speckled Tawny Owl, as well as two cream and brown Barn Owls were taken during the raid.

Taking these feathered friends out for a ride is such a HOOT!

THE Journal reported last month how Boudicca the tawny owl came within a whisker of claiming the UK record for the oldest tawny living in the wild.

Tawny owl Boudicca never got the crown

The tawny owl population in our region is booming as a result of the harsh winter, a Forestry Commission expert has revealed.