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horned owl
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horned owl

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Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus).
(credit: E.R. Degginger/Van Cleve Photography)
Any owl of the genus Bubo (family Strigidae), with hornlike tufts of feathers, especially the great horned owl. Other horned owls, all birds of prey, are found in Europe, Asia, and northern Africa (the eagle owl, or Eurasian eagle owl) and in Africa, India, Myanmar (Burma), and the Indonesian archipelago. They typically prey on rodents.



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