owl

noun

\ ˈau̇(-ə)l

Definition of owl

: any of an order (Strigiformes) of chiefly nocturnal birds of prey with a large head and eyes, short hooked bill, strong talons, and soft fluffy often brown-mottled plumage

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Recent Examples on the Web That year, California poppies blanketed parts of the Antelope Valley, and the Carrizo Plain National Monument was dotted in tidy tips and owl’s clover. — Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022 The birds in question were last seen and documented at a number of different times, ranging from the Siau scops-owl last glimpsed in 1866 in Indonesia, to the Cuban kite last observed in 2010 in Cuba. — Jeevan Ravindran, CNN, 19 Dec. 2021 With that layer of ice sealing the small creatures off from scurrying on top, how would an owl get its food? — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022 Passersby may know it as the crumbling building with the giant owl mural that was painted on it in 2016. — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 13 Apr. 2022 Even this night owl is listening for the early birds out there. — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 5 Apr. 2022 Though the fossil owl’s soft eye parts had long deteriorated, small bones called scleral ossicles that form a ring around the eye remained. — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022 The owl was fed meat items, mostly mice, as well as nutritional supplements during its recovery, said WHS wildlife director Crystal Sharlow-Schaefer. — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2022 Following the owl's delisting in 2006, conservation groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife, submitted a new petition to relist the bird. — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2022 See More

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