Reddish-brown European owl having a round head with black eyes.
1 They in turn provide food for heron, tawny owl , kestrel and buzzard.
2 It is England's tawny owl which utters the tu-whit-tu-whoo of Georgian poetry.
3 The 47 birds vary in species from canaries to parakeets, kestrels to the tawny owl .
4 An injured tawny owl scrutinises us and a roe deer shyly trots around the room.
5 Her dæmon was a small tawny owl , almost invisible in the dappled shadows under the trees.
6 The tawny owl has five eggs, white and smooth; and this is the kind that hoots at night.
7 I lie there listening to the call of the tawny owl , soft and familiar, and thinking of Lily.
8 This was the tawny owl he had been training, here to pick up its dinner of chopped day-old chicks.
9 A tawny owl has been caught on camera taking a dip in a "hoot tub" in the soaring temperatures.
10 They use no radio; the occasional flicker of a red LED torch or the hoot of a tawny owl are more than sufficient.
11 A pub landlady had a surprise call from her neighbour after a tawny owl had got into his front room via the chimney.
12 He photographed everything from tawny owls to venomous adders to-ofcourse-theroyal kingfisher.
13 Birds, including tawny owls and magpies, nest in the roofs and chimneys of abandoned buildings.
14 It is a breeding ground for many British birds, including tawny owls , woodpeckers and the now globally-at-risk marsh tit, willow tit and woodcock.
15 The tawny owls he hears are young birds forced to fend for themselves and trying to secure a fiefdom for food and for breeding.
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