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Meanings of great horned owl in English

Russian
виргинский филин
Portuguese
jacurutu
Spanish
buho americano
Catalan
bubo virginianus
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Species of bird.

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        Examples for "bubo virginianus"
        Examples for "bubo virginianus"
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        All night long the great tiger -owls yelped and hallooed across the valley; all night the spectral whip-poor-will whispered its husky, frightened warning.
        The Hidden Children
        Usage of great horned owl in English
        1
        Now they were set in the face of a great horned owl.
        The Water Witch
        2
        She made out the shape of a great horned owl.
        Never Have I Ever
        3
        The great horned owl has two eggs bigger than a hen's and reddish brown.
        Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
        4
        Here a great horned owl flew across the road.
        Vivian Grey
        5
        Tis the great bird, sir; the great horned owl, that always flies before the Wild Hunter.
        Vivian Grey
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        His lonely eye is cocked up at a great horned owl on the branch above him.
        Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
        7
        Altogether she has banded over 8,000 birds, including a great horned owl.
        The new yorker
        8
        Wood-duck, knot, greater yellow-legs, upland plover, golden plover, piping plover, great horned owl.-(Harry S. Hathaway, South Auburn.)
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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        A great horned owl swept down the hill, crossed the lake, and hooted from the forest of the opposite bank.
        The Harvester
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        A great horned owl.
        The Hunters of the Hills
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        A little screech owl tuned up in the distance, a barn owl replied, and a great horned owl drowned both their voices.
        A Girl of the Limberlost
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        A great horned owl made us shiver with his "hoo, hoo, hoo," as the flame shot upward in scarlet circles.
        See America First
        13
        Out of the unnatural silence of the night, close upon the edge of the clearing, boomed the cry of the great horned owl.
        The Gun-Brand
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        There was no King's College Chapel, its towers jutting from either side of its roof like the tufts on a great horned owl.
        The whole world: a novel
        15
        Then we heard the barking of wolves, the mournful 'coo-whoo-a' of the great horned owl, and the still more terrifying scream of the cougar.
        The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderne...
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        It is then the great horned owl of the swamp courts his mate, the big hawks pair, and even the crows begin to take notice.
        A Girl of the Limberlost