A Parliament of Owls

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Mayr, Gerald; Gingerich, Philip; Smith, Thierry (July 2020). "Skeleton of a new owl from the early Eocene of North America (Aves, Strigiformes) with an accipitrid-like foot morphology". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (2): e1769116. Bibcode: 2020JVPal..40E9116M. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1769116. S2CID 222210173. Today the few spotted owls that remain in the United States (they are nearly gone from Canada) have a new enemy. The closely related but more aggressive barred owl, abundant in the eastern United States, is expanding into the Pacific Northwest, where it pushes out the slightly smaller spotted owl. The US Forest Service has been discreetly culling barred owls in that region. Even so, the spotted owl could become the first North American owl to go extinct. According to the culture of the Hopi, a Uto-Aztec tribe, taboos surround owls, which are associated with sorcery and other evils. Heinrich, Bernd (1987): One Man's Owl. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08470-1. OCLC 15486687.

Alvarenga, Herculano M. F. & Höfling, Elizabeth (2003). "Systematic revision of the Phorusrhacidae (Aves: Ralliformes)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 43 (4): 55–91. doi: 10.1590/S0031-10492003000400001. Since owls have the night pretty much to themselves, as far as birds are concerned, they have evolved into a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and behaviors. Color is their least variable aspect. They come mostly in cryptic browns and greys, since their plumage matters less for courtship than for concealment. Their courtship, conducted mostly in the dark, is primarily vocal. But owl size ranges from the enormous eagle owls to the tiny sparrow-sized elf owl of Arizona. Some 220 to 225 extant species of owls are known, subdivided into two families: 1. true owls or typical owls family ( Strigidae) and 2. barn-owls family ( Tytonidae). Some entirely extinct families have also been erected based on fossil remains; these differ much from modern owls in being less specialized or specialized in a very different way (such as the terrestrial Sophiornithidae). The Paleocene genera Berruornis and Ogygoptynx show that owls were already present as a distinct lineage some 60–57 million years ago (Mya), hence, possibly also some 5 million years earlier, at the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. This makes them one of the oldest known groups of non- Galloanserae landbirds. The supposed " Cretaceous owls" Bradycneme and Heptasteornis are apparently non- avialan maniraptors. [41]

Today women in positions of power challenge the status quo and this has given more opportunities to women who have been previously disregarded .Growth of women in leadership positions has streghthened and the world has a new view of women as intellectuals other than sexual objects. Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states. The poems “Revival” “Ningwendete” “book of love “and “you killed me” guided us in analyzing the theme of love. Okay, fine. Maybe an investigation into the origins of the terms is warranted. After all, these dumb names must have come from somewhere, right? Duncan, James (2013). The Complete Book of North American Owls. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego. ISBN 978-1-60710-726-2. Webster, Douglas B.; Fay, Richard R. (6 December 2012). "Hearing in Birds". The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing. Springer Science & Business Media. p.547. ISBN 978-1-4612-2784-7. Johnsgard, Paul A. (2002): North American Owls: Biology and Natural History, 2nd ed. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. ISBN 1-56098-939-4.

Humans have always noticed owls. One of the earliest examples of Paleolithic art is an owl engraved on the wall of the Chauvet cave in France. 1 Among the peculiarities of owl physiognomy is that owls have both eyes facing forward, unlike most birds. They can also turn their heads 270 degrees (making up for their inability to move their eyes). It has been easy to imagine that these creatures of darkness, mostly experienced as an ominous cry in the night or a disconcerting stare during the day, have personalities, and malign ones at that. Even today, the two books under review tell us, in many parts of the world owls are killed whenever they are encountered, for fear of their evil influence.

Chaucer is deed the whiche this pamphlete wrate / So ben his heyres in all suche besynesse / And gone is also the famous clerke Lydgate / And so is yonge Hawes / god theyr soules adresse / Many were the volumes ye they made more & lesse / Theyr bokes ye lay vp / tyll that the lether moules / But yet for your myndes this boke I wyll impresse / That is in tytule the parlyament of foules. Thirdly, Poems in D Minor, which delves into the subject of existence, so much for a mixture of many emotions that strings music throughout this section. Cholewiak, Danielle (2003). "Strigiformes". Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology . Retrieved 31 December 2022.

Behavior of owls also varies widely. Burrowing owls live in underground tunnels in open country, such as prairie dog burrows, and are active by day. Many species of pygmy-owl are also diurnal, as is the snowy owl, since it nests at a latitude where the sun never sets in summer.The smallest owl—weighing as little as 1 + 3⁄ 32oz) and measuring some 13.5cm ( 5 + 1⁄ 4in)—is the elf owl ( Micrathene whitneyi). [6] Around the same diminutive length, although slightly heavier, are the lesser known long-whiskered owlet ( Xenoglaux loweryi) and Tamaulipas pygmy owl ( Glaucidium sanchezi). [6] The largest owls are two similarly sized eagle owls; the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo) and Blakiston's fish owl ( Bubo blakistoni). The largest females of these species are 71cm (28in) long, have a 190cm (75in) wing span, and weigh 4.2kg ( 9 + 1⁄ 4lb). [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Mike Unwin, who has watched and admired owls all over the world, captures the essence of each species, while explaining the unique natural history that has made these silent assassins the most effective feathered predators of darkness. Along the way he describes a fascinating range of breeding and hunting behaviour, the unusual calls that have given rise to so much superstition, and the cultural impact of owls around the world. The supposed fossil herons "Ardea" perplexa (Middle Miocene of Sansan, France) and "Ardea" lignitum (Late Pliocene of Germany) were more probably owls; the latter was apparently close to the modern genus Bubo. Judging from this, the Late Miocene remains from France described as "Ardea" aureliensis should also be restudied. [42] The Messelasturidae, some of which were initially believed to be basal Strigiformes, are now generally accepted to be diurnal birds of prey showing some convergent evolution toward owls. The taxa often united under Strigogyps [43] were formerly placed in part with the owls, specifically the Sophiornithidae; they appear to be Ameghinornithidae instead. [44] [45] [46] The ancient fossil owl Palaeoglaux artophoron Behavior Comparison of an owl (left) and hawk (right) remex. The serrations on the leading edge of an owl's flight feathers reduce noise Owl eyes each have nictitating membranes that can move independently of each other, as seen on this spotted eagle-owl in Johannesburg, South Africa.