Desert tawny owl (Strix aluco) is a different species from Hume's owl H Shirihai, Photographic Handbook of the Birds of the World An international group of ornithologists has discovered that a species ...

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Beauly, Inverness-shire: I stand at the water’s edge and wait for the moon’s brazier glow to take over, as a tawny owl floats effortlessly on to a nearby branch Summer night. Hot, sticky, airless, can ...

IN a paper published in 1934, F. L. Vanderplank 1 records certain observations which are interpreted as showing that the tawny owl, Strix aluco L., is able to perceive infra-red rays visually, and ...