adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
owl
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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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it's only the tawny owl who goes tu-whit-tu-whoo.
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But then I saw her face within her tangle of tawny hair - unmistakably young and female.
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Her hair was dyed tawny brown and carefully waved.
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It made Fabio think of some huge, tawny animal.
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It was another female, but small and insignificant-looking, with tawny wings whose gloss had faded.
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She looked like a sleek, tawny cat about to pounce on its prey.
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Sweep a brush across the four shades, from lightest sand to tawny terracotta, and dust over your face.
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Wardens find him sitting in a fake oak tree beside the replica of a female tawny owl.