owl
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Meanwhile, variants associated with openness to experience and extraversion were connected with a greater tendency to be a night owl.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Three years ago, an Arctic owl captivated residents in Cypress after arriving around the Christmas holiday in 2022 before it left the next month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Most of Ulster Wildlife's barn owl records come from the east of Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
During a stop at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, an owl perched on her gloved arm made her squeal like the girl she had been during her first visit there on a grade-school field trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
“Most certainly,” said the owl with a curt nod.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Barn owls have had a bumper summer in County Fermanagh, with 10 chicks recorded across two sites.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Wildlife officials had found that many of these poisons worked their way through the food chain, sickening and killing owls, raptors, coyotes and mountain lions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
From autumn, the project will also be aiming to offer "real estate" for wild barn, tawny and little owls, with nest boxes at the Bishop Auckland site and spots from Northumberland down to North Yorkshire.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
That definition stood for decades, notably surviving a 1995 Supreme Court case that focused on the protection of old-growth forests for spotted owls.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Although a full-grown rabbit is not really in danger from owls, there are few who take no account of them.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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