"Eastern barn owl The eastern barn owl (""Tyto javanica"") is usually considered a subspecies group and together with the American barn owl group, the western barn owl group, and sometimes the Andaman masked owl make up the barn owl. The cosmopolitan barn owl is recognized by most taxonomic authorities. A few (including the International Ornithologists' Union) separate them into distinct species, as is done here. The eastern barn owl is native to southeast Asia and Australasia. Iis nocturnal over most of its range, but in some Pacific islands, it also hunts by day. They specialise in hunting animals on the"
"owl family Tytonidae. The name literally means ""white owl"", from the onomatopoeic Ancient Greek ""tyto"" (τυτώ) for an owl – compare English ""hooter"" – and Latin ""alba"", ""white"". The bird is known by many common names which refer to its appearance, call, habitat, or its eerie, silent flight: white owl, silver owl, demon owl, ghost owl, death owl, night owl, rat owl, church owl, cave owl, stone owl, monkey-faced owl, hissing owl, hobgoblin or hobby owl, dobby owl, white-breasted owl, golden owl, scritch owl, screech owl, straw owl, barnyard owl, and delicate owl. ""Golden owl"" might also refer to the"
"Owl Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl. Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found in all regions of the Earth except polar ice caps and some remote islands. Owls are divided into two families: the true (or typical) owl family, Strigidae,"
"mythical association of the tawny owl with bad luck and death. The tawny owl is a robust bird, in length, with an wingspan. Weight can range from . Its large rounded head lacks ear tufts, and the facial disc surrounding the dark brown eyes is usually rather plain. The nominate race has two morphs which differ in their plumage colour, one form having rufous brown upperparts and the other greyish brown, although intermediates also occur. The underparts of both morphs are whitish and streaked with brown. Feathers are moulted gradually between June and December. This species is sexually dimorphic; the"
"of dismal shrieks frequently repeated"". The species was given its name because of this sound. Other descriptions of the call were: ""A peculiar barking noise ... just like the barking of a young dog""; ""Precisely the same as two men ""cooeying"" to each other from a distance""; ""A melancholy hooting note"", or a high-pitched chattering, only heard when the birds were on the wing and generally on dark and drizzly nights or immediately preceding rain. Various whistling, chuckling and mewing notes were observed from a captive bird. Buller (1905) mentions the testimony of a correspondent who claimed that laughing owls"
"but the patter of raindrops makes it difficult to detect faint sounds, and prolonged wet weather can lead to starvation if the owl cannot hunt effectively. The commonly heard female contact call is a shrill, ""kew-wick"" but the male has a quavering advertising song ""hoo...ho, ho, hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo"". William Shakespeare used this owl's song in ""Love's Labour's Lost"" (Act 5, Scene 2) as ""Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot"", but this stereotypical call is actually a duet, with the female making the ""kew-wick"" sound, and the male responding ""hooo""."
"call is a series of eight accented hoots ending in ""oo-aw"", with a downward pitch at the end. The most common mnemonic device for remembering the call is ""Who cooks for you, who cooks for you all."" It is noisy in most seasons. When agitated, this species will make a buzzy, rasping hiss and click its beak together forcefully. While calls are most common at night, the birds do call during the day as well. John James Audubon illustrated the barred owl in ""Birds of America"" (published, London 1827–38) as Plate 46 where it is shown threatening a grey squirrel."
"entry-level employees to managers to skilled staff, whenever they are open. For example, most hospitals employ many types of workers around the clock: Industries that tend to be less favorable to night owls include farming, construction, and working for public utilities. Many employees in these industries start working before 7:00 a.m. A list of famous night owls includes: For Robert Louis Stevenson, ""there is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours."" In Jayne Ann Krentz's ""Truth or Dare"", ""Arcadia and Harry were both creatures of the night. They managed to appear oddly stylish at one-thirty"
"with environmental factors such as temperature and humidity. A coccidian parasites, ""Eimeria atheni"", has been described from this species. An ectoparasitic mite, ""Neocheletiella athene"", has been described from a specimen from the Antwerp zoo. Bird lice of the species ""Colpocephalum pectinatum"" are known to be ectoparasites. These birds, being very familiar to humans especially with their loud calling, have been associated with bad omens. The species name ""brama"" is from the French name ""Chouette brame"" and indirectly refers to this owl's Indian habitat by way of homage to Brahma, the Hindu supreme spirit. In Hindu mythology the owl is a"
"Night owl (person) A night owl, evening person or simply owl, is a person who tends to stay up until late at night. In several countries, especially in Scandinavia, early birds are called ""A-people"" and night owls are called ""B-people"". Night owls who are involuntarily unable to fall asleep for several hours after a normal time may have delayed sleep phase syndrome. The opposite of a night owl is an early bird – a lark as opposed to an owl – which is someone who tends to begin sleeping at a time that is considered early and also wakes early."
"bat that flits at close of eve Has left the brain that won't believe. The owl that calls upon the night Speaks the unbeliever's fright. He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be belov'd by men. He who the ox to wrath has mov'd Shall never be by woman lov'd. The wanton boy that kills the fly Shall feel the spider's enmity. He who torments the chafer's sprite Weaves a bower in endless night. The caterpillar on the leaf Repeats to thee thy mother's grief. Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the last judgement draweth nigh. He"
"person called a night owl is someone who usually stays up late and may feel most awake in the evening and at night. Researchers have traditionally used the terms ""morningness"" and ""eveningness"" to describe these two phenotypes. Till Roenneberg, a chronobiologist in Munich, has mapped the circadian rhythms of more than 200,000 people. Biological processes, including sleep-wake patterns, that display an oscillation of about 24 hours are called circadian rhythms. According to Roenneberg, the distribution of circadian rhythms spans from the very early to the very late chronotypes, similarly to how height varies from short to tall. As circadian rhythm"
"pudgy and smooth with rounded short heads and few setae, but there are some exceptions in some subfamilies (e.g. Acronictinae and Pantheinae). Pupa: The pupae most often range from shiny brown to dark brown. When they newly pupate they are bright brownish orange, but after a few days start to get darker. Eggs: Vary in colors, but all have a spherical shape. The word Noctuidae is derived from the name of the type genus Noctua, which is the Latin name for the little owl, and the patronymic suffix -idae used typically to form taxonomic family names in animals. The common"
"are carried in the form of a talisman or charm. The modern West generally associates owls with wisdom and vigilance. This link goes back at least as far as Ancient Greece, where Athens, noted for art and scholarship, and Athena, Athens' patron goddess and the goddess of wisdom, had the owl as a symbol. Marija Gimbutas traces veneration of the owl as a goddess, among other birds, to the culture of Old Europe, long pre-dating Indo-European cultures. T. F. Thiselton-Dyer in his ""Folk-lore of Shakespeare"" says that ""from the earliest period it has been considered a bird of ill-omen,"" and"
"""Hyperion"" includes the ""gloom-bird's hated screech."" Pliny the Elder reports that owl's eggs were commonly used as a hangover cure. In Hinduism, an owl is the ""vahana"", mount, of the Goddess Lakshmi. People often allude to the reputation of owls as bearers of supernatural danger when they tell misbehaving children, ""the owls will get you"", and in most Native American folklore, owls are a symbol of death. For example: Encouraging natural predators to control rodent population is a natural form of pest control, along with excluding food sources for rodents. Placing a nest box for owls on a property can"
"are a feature shared by most living owl species to aid them in hunting in darkness. During the breeding season, large insects are favored in their diet, with invertebrates often comprising more than half of the owls' diet. Some regularly eaten insects include beetles, moths, crickets, grasshoppers, and cicadas, although they likely consume any commonly available flying insect. Also taken are crayfish, snails, spiders, earthworms, scorpions, leeches, millipedes, and centipedes. Small mammals, ranging in size from shrews to young rabbits (""Sylvilagus"" ssp.), are regular prey and almost always become the owl's primary food during winter. Small rodents such as microtine"
"is that this nickname originated from his talent for impersonating the cry of the owl (""chouette"" in French), or specifically the tawny owl, which was called ""chouan"" in old French (French ""chat-huant""), a designation that survived in the western ""langue d'oïl"" dialect spoken in Mayenne. According to another authority, the only reason the members of the Cottereau family had long borne the surname Chouan was that their grandparent was sad and taciturn by nature, and according to yet another, because they used owl-calls as warning and recognition signals whilst out on smuggling trips. Writing within living memory of the events,"
"Researchers traditionally use the terms ""morningness"" and ""eveningness"" for the two chronotypes or diurnality and nocturnality in animal behavior. The term is derived from the primarily nocturnal habits of the owl. Most owls sleep during the day and hunt for food at night. Usually, people who are night owls stay awake past midnight, and extreme night owls may stay awake until just before or even after dawn. Night owls tend to feel most energetic just before they go to sleep at night. Some night owls have a preference or habit for staying up late, or stay up to work the"
"Boreal owl The boreal owl (""Aegolius funereus"") is a small owl. In Europe, it is typically known as Tengmalm's owl after Swedish naturalist Peter Gustaf Tengmalm or, more rarely, Richardson's owl after Sir John Richardson. The scientific name is from Latin. The genus name ""Aegolius"" is a type of screech owl thought to be a bird of ill omen, and ""funereus"" means ""funereal"". This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. The other grouping is the barn owls, Tytonidae. Due to its shyness and evasive reaction"
"True owl The true owls or typical owls (family Strigidae) are one of the two generally accepted families of owls, the other being the barn owls (Tytonidae). The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy unites the Caprimulgiformes with the owl order; here, the typical owls are a subfamily Striginae. This is unsupported by more recent research (see Cypselomorphae for details), but the relationships of the owls in general are still unresolved. This large family comprises nearly 220 living species in 25 genera. The typical owls have a cosmopolitan distribution and are found on every continent except Antarctica. While typical owls (hereafter referred to simply"
"feathers, large head and the longest tail of any extant owl obscure a body lighter than that of most other large owls. The length ranges from , averaging for females and for males. The wingspan can exceed , but averages for females and for males. The adult weight ranges from , averaging for females and for males. The males are usually smaller than females, as with most owl species. The call of the adult is a series of very deep, rhythmic ""whoo""s, which is usually given in correlation to their territories or in interactions with their offspring. At other times,"
"with a darker brown feathers around the eyes, on the edge of the facial disc, and on the ear tufts. The underparts are light brown with darker brown streaks which fade away towards the vent. The juvenile is covered in white down contrasting with a black facial disk and dark brown wings. It ranges from in length, making it the largest of the country's owls; females are larger than males. Its call is usually a series of barks, varying in pitch and volume, but sometimes it will utter a series of more hoot-like notes, described by some as ""ulooh"". The"
"is occupied by the owl, which in that particular story turns out to be Nyctimene, a cursed daughter of Epopeus, king of Lesbos. As for ancient Roman folklore, owls were considered harbingers of death if they hooted while perched on a roof, and placing one of its feathers near someone sleeping could prompt him or her to speak and reveal their secrets. The 19th-century idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel famously noted that ""the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk""—meaning that philosophy comes to understand a historical condition just as it passes away."
"for a corpse) show that traditionally, rural populations in many places considered barn owls to be birds of evil omen. For example, the Tzeltal people in Mexico regard them as ""disease givers"". These owls don't ""hoot"" but emit raspy screeches and hissing noises or that their white face and underbelly feathers that are visible as they fly overhead make them look ""ghostly"". Consequently, they were often persecuted by farmers who were unaware of the benefits these birds bring. Negative emotions can also be attributed to the false belief that they could eat large animals such as chickens and cats. The"
"in the morning."" British author Hilary Rubinstein wrote: ""Blessed are the owls, for they shall inherit the mystery and magic of the night."" In Pliny the Elder's Natural History, he states ""Vita vigila est"", ""to be alive is to be watchful"", a military metaphor for keeping watch in the night. In The Little River Band, hit ""The Night Owls"": ""be strong, find the heart of a night owl falling/Stay up till dawn until the night is gone"" Night owl (person) A night owl, evening person or simply owl, is a person who tends to stay up until late at night."
"owl measuring in length and weighing . It has large eyes, a big head, a short neck, and broad wings. Its bill is short, strong, hooked and black. Its plumage is mottled tawny to brown with a barred tail and wings. The upper breast is significantly streaked. Its flight is characteristically floppy due to its irregular wingbeats. The short-eared owl may also be described as ""moth or bat-like"" in flight. Wingspans range from . Females are slightly larger than males. The yellow-orange eyes of ""A. flammeus"" are exaggerated by black rings encircling each eye, giving the appearance of them wearing"
"The Owl and the Pussycat ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets"". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term ""runcible"", used for the phrase ""runcible spoon"", was invented for the poem. ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" features four anthropomorphic animals – an owl, a cat, a pig, and a turkey – and tells the story of the love between the title"
"The Owl and the Nightingale The Owl and the Nightingale is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator. It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as debate poetry (or verse contest). Verse contests from this time period were usually written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. This poem shows the influence of French linguistic, literary, and rhetorical techniques. After the Norman conquest, French became a predominant language in England, but English was still widespread and recognized as an acceptable language for"
"an owl near the home of a sick individual signifies the infirm's imminent death. Other beliefs pertaining to death are related to dreams, dining etiquette, odors, unusual shapes of certain objects, children, and odd numbers. Examples of these types are: not allowing family members to leave the home until used utensils have been cleansed (it is believed a family member may pass away if this habit is not followed), consuming sour fruit in the evenings (to avoid early parental demise), avoiding taking photographs of three persons together (to avoid the early death of the individual placed in the middle), sudden"
"Striped owl The striped owl (""Pseudoscops clamator"") is a medium-sized owl with large ear tufts and a brownish-white facial disk rimmed with black. Its beak is black, and it has cinnamon-colored eyes. It has shorter, rounder wings than most of its close relatives. The upperparts are cinnamon with fine black vermiculation and heavy stripes. The underparts are pale tawny with dusky streaks. It is native to South America, and parts of Central America. Its systematic placement is not resolved. Different authorities place it in ""Asio"", in ""Pseudoscops"" together with the Jamaican owl, or more rarely into the monotypic genus ""Rhinoptynx""."
"Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as ""least concern"". The little owl is a small owl with a flat-topped head, a plump, compact body and a short tail. The facial disc is flattened above the eyes giving the bird a frowning expression. The plumage is greyish-brown, spotted, streaked and barred with white. The underparts are pale and streaked with darker colour. It is usually in length with a wingspan of for both sexes, and weighs about . The adult little owl of the most widespread form, the nominate ""A. n. noctua"", is white-speckled brown above, and"
"Kikuyu of Kenya, it was believed that owls were harbingers of death. If one saw an owl or heard its hoot, someone was going to die. In general, owls are viewed as harbingers of bad luck, ill health, or death. The belief is widespread even today. In Mongolia the owl is regarded as a benign omen. For example, the great warlord Genghis Khan was hiding from enemies in a small coppice. An owl roosted in the tree above him, which caused his pursuers to think no man could be hidden there. In modern Japan, owls are regarded as lucky and"
"Owlman In English folklore, the Owlman, sometimes referred to as the Cornish Owlman, or the Owlman of Mawnan, is an owl-like creature said to have been seen around mid-1976 in the village of Mawnan, Cornwall, England. The Owlman is sometimes compared to Mothman; however, a Eurasian eagle-owl is likely the source of the legend. The story originated when Tony ""Doc"" Shiels claimed to have investigated a report of two young girls on holiday in Mawnan who saw a large winged creature hovering above the church tower on April 17, 1976. According to most versions of the story, the girls, identified"