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Little owl   /lˈɪtəl aʊl/   Listen
Little owl

noun
1.
Small European owl.  Synonym: Athene noctua.






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"Little owl" Quotes from Famous Books



... of toads and cicadas, my hammock came down by the head. Then I was woke by a sudden bark close outside, exactly like that of a clicketting fox; but as the dogs did not reply or give chase, I presumed it to be the cry of a bird, possibly a little owl. Next there rushed down the mountain a storm of wind and rain, which made the coco-leaves flap and creak, and rattle against the gable of the house; and set every door and window banging, till they were caught and brought to reason. And between the howls of the wind I became ...
— At Last • Charles Kingsley

... of my window listening to the little owl, and suddenly I saw the light from yours fall criss-cross across the grass.... Can't ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers

... drowsy, having come in from the breathless dark, thinking, perhaps, that her whiteness was a light. What dim memory did it rouse; something of HIM, something HE had done—in darkness, on a night like this. Ah, yes! that evening after Gorbio, the little owl-moth on her knee! He had touched her when he took that cosy wan velvet-eyed thing ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy



Words linked to "Little owl" :   genus Athene, bird of night, Athene, bird of Minerva, owl, Athene noctua, hooter



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