Listen out for the 'to-wit to-woo'.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  November 28, 2000 ;     151 words ......national survey to find out where the nation's tawny owls are living in December. Tawny owls have well known calls - the female's too wit...and mice. December is a good time to hear tawny owls because they are calling to establish breeding...

An experimental analysis of small clutch size in tropical House Wrens.

Ecology;  March 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION Variation in clutch size in birds has stimulated a great deal...focused on understanding variation in clutch size within populations, leaving the question of geographic variation in clutch size mostly to a series of correlational...

Effect of timing and female quality on clutch size in the Collared...

Bird Study;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......and female age appear to be related to clutch size. Aims To test two hypotheses ('date...by morphological variables and age on clutch size in the Collared Flycatcher Ficedula...effects of date and age of females on clutch size. The type of prey fed to nestlings was...

Is mean litter size the most productive? A test in Columbian ground...

Ecology;  July 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......1948a, 1954, 1966) seminal work on clutch size in birds stimulated a great deal of...proposed that natural selection favors the clutch size that on average produces the most young...He referred to the most productive clutch size as the optimal clutch size. Lack ...

The seasonal decline in tree swallow clutch size: physiological constraint...

Ecology;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......there is a negative correlation between clutch size and the timing of breeding within a...correlation between timing of breeding and clutch size is the effect of non-heritable variation...environmental quality lead to a decline in clutch size, either directly or through seasonal...

Home to roost! Young tawny owl is surprise visitor in outhouse chimney of...

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  September 3, 2008 ;     369 words ......but nobody can seem to tell me. Wise-up to tawny owls Their Latin name is Strix aluco. Tawny owls are the most common and widespread owl in...sound and the males reply with 'twoo'. Tawny owls are the biggest common owl in the UK, with...

NO POINT OWLING.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  October 23, 2002 ;     18 words ...TAWNY owls do not sing in the rain because they know it drowns them out, claim experts at the University of St Andrews.

Owl killed by stress of attack on aviary

Evening News - Scotland;  February 22, 2000 ;     203 words ......a Harris hawk has returned and three tawny owls are thought to be living nearby. However...two long-eared owls. However the three tawny owls missing following the break-in on Sunday...thought to be close by. "We heard the tawny owls hooting all night. I doubt we'll get...

Tawny owl numbers soaring in forest

The Northern Echo;  December 29, 2006 ;     211 words ...TAWNY owls are thriving in one of the region's forests...upland forest.Previously, it was thought tawny owls may be rare, preferring broadleaf and...side to a familiar creature.The fact that tawny owls are thriving also tells us something else...

Can you spot the birdies? ...and we don't mean the pair of parakeets.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  February 27, 2006 ;     282 words ......Hidden inside a hole in the tree are two tawny owls, quietly contemplating their louder...shows the old and new guard. The two tawny owls, one brown and one grey, are virtually...species. However, in this case I think the tawny owls would be able to hold their own in any...

Tawny owl finds night-time home

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  February 14, 2007 ;     252 words ...I have always known tawny owls in the woods by our home, so it is...chilled to the bone. The calls of tawny owls are quite beautiful, not mournful...sounds gladden one's heart. Already tawny owls will have staked claims on territory...

Listen out for hooting owls and help to monitor Scottish tawny numbers

The Scotsman;  February 16, 2008 ;     504 words ......estimates put the number of breeding tawny owls in the UK at around 19,000: the survey...Atlas will provide further figures. Adult tawny owls (Strix aluco) are around the same size...As well as providing more data about tawny owls, the Bird Atlas will also increase our...

Covariation of spider egg and clutch size: the influence of foraging and...

Ecology;  April 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......reproductive parameters such as egg size and clutch size with body size has been an area of intensive...that attempt to explain patterns of clutch size variation should also consider the associated variation in egg size. While clutch size has been found to be related to body...

Does Mallard clutch size vary with landscape composition? (Short...

Wilson Bulletin;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......analysis was to determine whether Mallard clutch size also varied with landscape composition. STUDY...4 times from May through July and recorded clutch size at each visit. Mallard clutch size declines with nest initiation date (Krapu...

Owls return to wild

The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 11, 2004 ;     25 words ...Three rescued tawny owls, which were abandoned as fledglings, are living in the wild again after being released from a wildlife reserve in Baronsdown, Somerset.