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coruja-das-torres Catalan
xibeca Mottled buff and white owl often inhabiting barns and other structures; important in rodent control.
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The barn owl lays its eggs in the places which it inhabits.
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Dr. Shields peered over his spectacles, looking every bit the barn owl.
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Somewhere near Amberley, a barn owl lifted from a stand of phragmites.
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The barn owl has been having a difficult time recently, with numbers decreasing.
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How often have you seen a barn owl, that wonderful ghost-of-the-night?