How to Use great horned owl in a Sentence

great horned owl

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  • There are many of the more common great horned owls in the Delta area this season.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The owl, a great horned owl, appeared to have been hit by a car when the woman found it, Hart said.
    Nathan J. Fish, azcentral, 8 May 2018
  • Several great horned owls live in the woods near my home in Middleton.
    Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2018
  • My snowmobile trip to the edge of the Range yielded a couple of great horned owls — together.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Among the few things that can take down a great horned owl are vehicles, which smack birds in the wrong place at the wrong time with a few tons of steel and highway-speed force.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 8 May 2018
  • But great horned owls, which also reside in the Fells, are another matter.
    Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The doctors’ conclusion, shared with us the next day, is that Beckett was attacked by a large bird of prey, probably a great horned owl.
    Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Woods said that building the new nest was necessary since great horned owls don’t typically build their own nests.
    Brittany Britto, baltimoresun.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Last month, a great horned owl found in Ypsilanti was brought to the Howell Nature Center's wildlife clinic.
    Christina Hall, ajc, 8 May 2018
  • In 2014, a photographer captured the unusual sight of a great horned owl taking a dip in Lake Michigan.
    Fox News, 8 July 2019
  • To illustrate that owls do have a sense of humor, a great horned owl hooted about 10 a.m. and two Eastern screech-owls showed themselves mid-morning as well.
    Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 22 Dec. 2017
  • But this video shows a great horned owl taking its chances, attacking a nest at Cornell’s Sapsucker Woods.
    National Geographic, 17 June 2017
  • The great horned owl exhibit at the World Center for Birds of Prey will show the diversity of owls’ environments.
    Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 12 Mar. 2018
  • At our small campfire near Laurel Lake, tucked in a pocket at 6,490 feet in the Yosemite Wilderness, just a day’s hike in, the perfect quiet was broken by the hooting of a great horned owl that carried through the night.
    Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2018
  • Their sixth studio album inspired by the lore surrounding the great horned owl, which can see perfectly at night, making it a reliable guide, even during dark times.
    Taylor Mims, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • If a form of media — a book, a song, a YouTube video of a great horned owl, a drawing app, an episode of Bob’s Burgers — supports a positive interaction between a caregiver and a child, that’s a net gain for that child.
    Anya Kamenetz, The Cut, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Skeptics said the little men were actually monkeys Billy Ray and Lucky had brought back from the carnival, while others thought the family had mistaken great horned owls for aliens.
    Maria Carter, Country Living, 21 July 2017
  • An animal control officer was called to two locations to investigate reports of two injured great horned owls.
    Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Christian Artuso, an ornithologist with Bird Studies Canada, tells the magazine that this heretofore unseen behavior is the first documentation of polygyny (a male mating with two or more females) recorded for great horned owls as a species.
    Saryn Chorney, ajc, 3 May 2018
  • Now, National Geographic reports that a highly unusual great horned owl family located in Reno, Nevada, has become a new internet obsession.
    Saryn Chorney, ajc, 3 May 2018

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