noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
night owl
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Elsewhere these plains are home to the great grey owl and the shy brown bear.
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Like the great horned owl , these owls should now be getting ready to nest.
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The three species are the snowy owl , spotted eagle owl, and the great grey owl.
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Earlier last year a nesting pair of great horned owls were killed by heat from a shuttle launch.
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It was a great horned owl .
grey
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Elsewhere these plains are home to the great grey owl and the shy brown bear.
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The three species are the snowy owl , spotted eagle owl, and the great grey owl.
little
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I am like an owl of the wilderness, like a little owl of the waste places.
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Still more extreme damage is seen in the category 4 species, little owl , kestrel and peregrine.
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The sample size for the little owl is small and the variable results for this species can probably be attributed to this.
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In addition, at least one little owl has been raised on reactor site.
other
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Short wings, more pointed than other owls , combine with long tail to give hawk-like silhouette.
pygmy
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Still, the press jumped on the pygmy owl angle, splashing headlines about the controversy across the top of both dailies.
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In fact, Galvin sees protecting the pygmy owl and its habitat as a boon to the economy and wildlife alike.
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In the meantime, however, Amphi is still stuck with the pygmy owl problem.
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This could result in the plan being modified, so as not to adversely affect the pygmy owl .
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Environmentalists feel saving the pygmy owl requires re-establishing flourishing desert riparian areas.
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The only exception is in cases of self-defense, which seems unlikely in a confrontation with the pygmy owl .
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Sprawl kills, as it turns out, and not just pygmy owls .
snowy
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The three species are the snowy owl , spotted eagle owl, and the great grey owl.
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The snowy owl and tawny owl assemblages diverge most greatly from this, with fewer complete mandibles than maxillae.
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In contrast to the barn owl , the snowy owl is represented by only a single pellet sample.
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Category 1 again contains the barn owl and short-eared owl but joined this time by the snowy owl.
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I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl .
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In the end the decision is made by the snowy owl .
spotted
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The three species are the snowy owl , spotted eagle owl, and the great grey owl.
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Under the terms of the Act, the land was protected because of its importance for the northern spotted owl .
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Like the northern spotted owl , the tiny bird is dependent on old-growth forests.
tawny
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Wardens find him sitting in a fake oak tree beside the replica of a female tawny owl .
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Other birds to benefit from the treatment include a tawny owl with an injured leg, now making a fast recovery.
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The snowy owl and tawny owl assemblages diverge most greatly from this, with fewer complete mandibles than maxillae.
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And it's only the tawny owl who goes tu-whit-tu-whoo.
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Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge.
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Breeding numbers of the tawny owl were at their lowest since surveying began in 1963.
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No more tawny owls in the tall Scotch pines.
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Around 50,000 pairs of tawny owls remain in Britain, compared to just 5,000 barn owls.
■ NOUN
barn
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I hope to rear another barn owl like Dawn some day, from the egg to the jesses.
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The king snake and the barn owl are natural predators.
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After a century of population decline, only 4,000 of Britain's estimated 25,000 pairs of barn owls live in the wild.
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These values contrast with correlations between the barn owl and kestrel samples of r 0.189-0.355.
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In adult plumage a barn owl is beautiful and Dawn was no exception.
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Also I didn't have much money, and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey.
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Once poison has temporarily reduced rat populations to almost zero, predation by barn owls can slow the recovery.
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A barn owl usually lays an egg a day or every other day until there is a clutch of four to six.
eagle
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This is a large species of eagle owl , hunting the large gerbil that lives on the short grass plains of Serengeti.
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Verreaux eagle owl is also an occasional predator of small antelopes.
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The three species are the snowy owl , spotted eagle owl, and the great grey owl.
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The average relative abundances for these species ranges from 28.9 to 45.3, with intermediate values for the species of eagle owl .
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The eagle owls are represented by three species.
night
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If you are a night owl this really is the place to come to.
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But I also wondered what I was supposed to do about a lifelong way of living as a night owl .
pellet
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Also send in any records of mole remains in owl pellets or the diets of other predators.
■ VERB
bar
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Under normal circumstances barred owls do not frequent built-up areas.
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A barred owl calls down in the swamp.
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A barred owl has not showed up in Central Park for decades.
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Word of the Barrio barred owl spread among birders by means of an efficient and long established telephone grapevine.
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But I flushed a barred owl from a red maple tree among the balsam firs.
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But before we left, Jeff gave an amazingly loud and accurate rendition of the barred owl .
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We heard a barred owl call, and he answered it and it answered back.
find
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I didn't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother.
hear
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At night I could hear owls hooting, and the stupendous palace was only three minutes walk away.
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We heard a barred owl call, and he answered it and it answered back.
horned
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Saguaros in bloom, the glare of a horned owl and javelinas rooting for a bite to eat.
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Like the great horned owl , these owls should now be getting ready to nest.
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Earlier last year a nesting pair of great horned owls were killed by heat from a shuttle launch.
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It was a great horned owl .
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Great horned owls find shade in the trees there.
spot
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The spotted owl nests in the broken tops.
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In 1991, federal judge William Dwyer banned most logging in Washington and Oregon to save those three thousand spotted owls .
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One of the consequences has to do with the extirpation of species that the spotted owl dispute has Suggested.
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According to environmental writer Gregg Easterbrook, as many as ten thousand pairs of spotted owls may live in the western states.
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A total of 6. 8 million acres were set aside for another threatened bird, the northern spotted owl .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He put the owl lamp down.
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In 1991, federal judge William Dwyer banned most logging in Washington and Oregon to save those three thousand spotted owls.
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Like the great horned owl , these owls should now be getting ready to nest.
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Most owls are nocturnal, hunting at night for similar prey to the diurnal or day-hunting hawks.
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The owls are often seen outside the barn first thing in the morning, and they nip into the hay when disturbed.
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The only exception is in cases of self-defense, which seems unlikely in a confrontation with the pygmy owl .
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Whereas most people were in their beds asleep, there were a few owls who understood the pleasure of darkness.
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You might think we were being a bit over-cautious, but these were two very young and inexperienced owls we were releasing.