Examples of barn owl in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The resort’s roster includes six Harris’s hawks, one peregrine falcon, one Eurasian eagle owl, one barn owl and an Eastern screech owl. — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022 Other scenarios — like ship-hitching house crows and hummingbirds, or the barn owl believed to have traveled from England to Afghanistan in the hold of a military aircraft — demonstrate humanity’s role in punting bird species far from their origins. — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022 In the story, a baby barn owl named Plop is frightened of the dark, but he's helped by others to grow in confidence and overcome his fears. — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 11 Feb. 2022 Who Was Afraid of the Dark tells the story of Plop, a baby barn owl who is helped by others to overcome his fears and grow in confidence. — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Feb. 2022 From a bat, buzzard and barn owl, to a scorpion, seahorse and squirrel monkey, Inside In is a collection of more than 50 arthropods, mollusks, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. — Megan Gambino, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021 Only three barn owl nests were detected between 1995 and 2000, with the last sighting in 1999 in Grant County. — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2021 Other noteworthy reports from the Cape included a barn owl at South Monomoy Island, and Philadelphia vireos at Fort Hill in Eastham, Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary, Barnstable, and Mashpee, where a worm-eating warbler was also observed. — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2021 In fact, the extremely large lagena of Shuvuuia is almost identical in relative size to today's barn owl, suggesting that the dino could have hunted in complete darkness. — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 May 2021 See More

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