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Butterflies include white-letter and purple hairstreaks, and there are breeding birds such as sparrowhawk and tawny owl.
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Its nocturnal habits and eerie, easily imitated call, have led to a mythical association of the tawny owl with bad luck and death.
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Others say his nickname came from an imitation of the call of the tawny owl (the "chouette hulotte") he customarily used as a recognition signal.
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It will even imitate the sound of the bird it is attacking, such as a tawny owl, which it does mercilessly if attacking during the day.
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The flight of the tawny owl is rather heavy and slow, particularly at takeoff.
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The short-eared owl also differs structurally from the long-eared, having longer, slimmer wings: the long-eared owl has wings shaped more like those of a tawny owl.
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A tawny owl cried out, geese flew in formation to their roost, a fox barked.
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It contains garden birds, a wren's nest and a tawny owl.
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The story of an amateur astronaut and his tawny owl travelling in a cardboard spaceship.
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The birds and small mammals attract predators such as kestrel, sparrowhawk, buzzard, tawny owl, weasel and stoat.
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