Owl in a sentence

The latter at that time were usually a fairly generic type of (probably earless) owl similar to today's North American spotted owl or the European tawny owl ; the diversity in size and ecology found in typical owls today developed only subsequently.

This optimizes the owl’s ability to silently fly in order to capture prey without the prey hearing the owl first as it flies in. It also allows the owl to monitor the sound output from its flight pattern.

Picasso identified with the owl’s interrogatory gaze, and he later created a self-portrait of himself as an owl — with his own piercing eyes staring out from a line drawing of the bird.

The state’s smallest owl — the saw whet owl — has a pinging type call that he describes sounding like a submarine under the water.

Tony is a night owl while Sarah is a early bird, both debaters give us background on why their habits work for them and what their day to day might look like with their early bird and night owl schedules.

Although it looks tiny, the owl is not a baby but Saw-whet owls one of the smallest owl species in North America.

Education is a central part of the Owl Box Project, according to Chipape, who is the project coordinator for the Owl Box Project.

Bryant introduced the students to a Great Horned Owl, Barred Owl and a Red Tailed Hawk.

Houston, about 20-plus miles south of Winona and less than 20 miles west of LaCrescent, is the home of the International Owl Center, and this was the 16th annual owl festival.

It is important to ensure the hole for the owl is not too large, which can attract the Great Horned Owl and other predators.

Nite Owl actually had a snow-owl outfit in case of extremely cold conditions, while Rorschach simply donned a scarf.

The owl’s gender is unclear — it would take a DNA test to know for sure — but Mr. Ben David’s instinct tells him the owl is female.

A few owls are active during the day also; examples are the burrowing owl (Speotyto cunicularia) and the short-eared owl (Asio flammeus).

Gibbons noted an unintended theme was contrasting the mundane and the romantic, citing the separate sex scenes between Nite Owl and Silk Spectre on his couch and then high in the sky on Nite Owl's airship.

Other anastomoses between the carotid and vertebral arteries support this effect. citation citation The smallest owl—weighing as little as convert and measuring some convert—is the elf owl (Micrathene whitneyi).

Secondly, serrated edges on the leading edge of owls' remiges muffle an owl's wing beats, allowing an owl's flight to be practically silent.

Several types of owl, however, are crepuscular —active during the twilight hours of dawn and dusk ; one example is the pygmy owl (Glaucidium).

Talons While the auditory and visual capabilities of the owl allow it to locate and pursue its prey, the talons and beak of the owl do the final work.

These unique structures reduce noise frequencies above 2 kHz, making the sound level emitted drop below the typical hearing spectrum of the owl’s usual prey and also within the owl’s own best hearing range.

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