"It must be a bird, though," said the Owl, who had been elected president by the assembly, for he is the bird of wisdom.
The sayings live in books, and on the tongues of the people; they fly far about like a flock of birds, but still are as different from one another as the thrush is from the owl, as the wood-pigeon from the gull.
Was it a bird, a bat or an owl?
Here he climbed the old linden-tree that stood near it, and began to imitate the voice of an owl, the only bird he could venture to mimic.
Then they ceased, and all around became still; not a bird could be heard, they were all at rest, even the owl had not left her hiding place; deep silence reigned on the margin of the wood by the sea-shore.
Yes, and I may as well tell you that you that each year, when I arrived a few days before you to repair the nest, and put everything in its place, I have spent a whole night flying here and there over the marshy lake, as if I had been an owl or a bat, but all to no purpose.
It grew dark, and as night was coming on I found a lodging in an old tower, where dwelt a watchman and an owl.
The solemn stillness that reigned around them was now and then broken by the shrill cries of the great horned owl and other birds that they knew nothing of.
" Just over the fowls sat the owl, with father owl and the little owls.
None of them had gone far enough, nor had he, and yet he said that the sound of the bell came from a large owl in a hollow tree.
It came when a giant owl hit its body against a tree.
There was an owl sitting on a branch next to the hen house.
Great black grasshoppers played the mouth organ, and the owl struck herself on the body instead of a drum.
