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Peregrine falcons ( Falco peregrinus ), Northern harriers ( Circus cyaneus ), Barred owls ( Strix varia ) and other birds of prey are found.
Contrary to popular belief, it does not hoot ( such calls are made by typical owls, like the Tawny Owl or other Strix ).
Northern flying squirrels, along with pine squirrels, are an important prey species for the Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis.
Only this species and, more infrequently, other fairly large owls from the Strix genus are known to " snow-plunge " for prey, a habit that is thought to require superb hearing not possessed by all types of owls.
Gray Jays are consumed by several bird species including great gray owls ( Strix nebulosa ), northern hawk-owls ( Surnia ulula ), and Mexican spotted owls ( Strix occidentalis lucida ).
Some subspecies are known to produce distinct vocalizations ; they are also different in appearance and parapatric, and might be distinct species: The northern Strix ( leptogrammica ) newarensis group ( Himalayan Wood-owl ; present subspecies newarensis, ticehursti, laotiana and caligata ) which occur from the Himalayan foothills of Kashmir east to Taiwan have a soft low to-hooh not unlike a rock dove cooing.

Strix and also
This is also an incorrect spelling of the true owl genus Strix.
* Barred Owl, Strix varia ( also called wood owl )
Many native fauna also make the Hoh Rainforest their home, including the Pacific Tree Frog ( Pseudacris regilla ), Northern Spotted Owl ( Strix occidentalis caurina ), Bobcat ( Lynx rufus ), Cougar ( Felis concolor couguar ), Raccoon ( Procyon lotor ), Olympic Black Bear ( Ursus americanus altifrontalis ), Roosevelt elk ( Cervus canadensis roosevelti ), and Black-tailed Deer ( Odocoileus columbianus ).

Strix and for
Linnæus 1758 established Strix scandiaca and Strix noctua ( Aves ), for which he gave different descriptions and referred to different types, but both taxa later turned out to refer to the same species, the snowy owl.
The UKeiG Strix award is an annual award for outstanding contributions to the field of information retrieval and is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists ( IIS ), who died in 1997.
The then, 13-year-old Gunnar played for Bollklubben Strix.
He is commemorated in the scientific specific name for Hume's Owl, Strix butleri.
STRIX Television is a Swedish television production company that was founded in 1988 and today is serves as one of the largest production companies for the Nordic countries .. Strix ’ s head office is in Stockholm, Sweden.
Since 1997 Strix has produced Expedition Robinson for an ever increasing audience throughout Europe.

Strix and Vampires
* Vampires in popular culture # Strix

Strix and .
( 1982 ): An owl ’ s eye: schematic optics and visual performance in Strix aluco L. J Comp Physiol, 145: 341-349.
1853 photo by Charles Nègre of Henri Le Secq next to Strix ( mythology ) | le Stryge in the then-new Gallery of Chimera ( architecture ) | Chimeras.
Lönnberg 1931 acted as First Reviser, cited both names and selected Strix scandiaca to have precedence.
It is sometimes referred to as the world's largest owl, although Blakiston's Fish Owl ( B. blakistoni ) is slightly heavier on average and the Great Grey Owl ( Strix nebulosa ) is slightly longer on average.
File: Strix varia DM1. jpg | Barred Owl yawning
), coyote ( Canis latrans ), domestic dogs ( C. familiaris ), domestic cats ( Felis catus ), wolves ( C. lupus ), mountain lions ( Felis concolor ), great horned owls ( Bubo virginianus ), barred owls ( Strix varia ), spotted owls ( S. occidentalis ), other owls, red-tailed hawks ( Buteo jamaicensis ), northern goshawks ( Accipiter gentilis ), other hawks ( Buteonidae ), golden eagles ( Aquila chryseatos ), and crows and ravens.
The Taylor Library was largely funded by and named after Dr John Taylor, a former graduate of the college, inventor of the cordless kettle and former Chairman of Strix Ltd, an electric kettle thermostat manufacturer.
The Long-eared Owl-Asio otus ( previously: Strix otus ) is a species of owl which breeds in Europe, Asia, and North America.
In the Pacific Northwest of North America, the Northern Spotted Owl ( Strix occidentalis ) is a common predator of flying squirrels.
The Barred Owl ( Strix varia ) is a large typical owl native to North America.
The Great Grey Owl or Lapland Owl ( Strix nebulosa ) is a very large owl, distributed across the Northern Hemisphere.
According to Aleksander Brückner, the word is derived from Strix.
Northern goshawks ( Accipiter gentilis ), Mexican spotted owls ( Strix occidentalis spp.
Johann Friedrich Gmelin named an owl after him in 1788 ( Strix tengmalmi ) in the mistaken belief that Tengmalm had been the first to describe it.
The Spotted Owl ( Strix occidentalis ) is a species of true owl.

are and also
All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.
I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.
By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.
it is true that they are also extremely dull.
The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.
We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.
He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
Among measures in anticipation of crisis are plans to inject into the turmoil as assistants of key decision makers qualified persons who are cognizant of the corrosive effect of crisis upon personal relationships and are also able to raise calm and realistic voices when overburdened leaders near the limit of self-control.
Very likely it will also include a recognition that the work we are reading reflects or `` belongs to '' some way of thought labelled as a `` school '' or an `` -ism '', i.e. a complex or `` syndrome '' of ideas occurring together with sufficient prominence to warrant identification.
Greek boys and girls also go for rock-and-roll, and the stations most tuned to are those carrying United States overseas programs.
They both measure literature by moral standards, and in their political writings both allow for censorship, but the differences between them are also significant.
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
Occupational choices are also useful -- and interesting -- in bringing out clearly that values do not constitute the only component in goals and aspirations.
The students who are most willing to acquiesce in the suppression of civil liberties are also those who are most likely to be prejudiced against minority groups, to be conformist and traditionalistic in general social attitudes, and to lack a basic faith in people.
This finding is consistent also with the fact that student leaders are more likely to be supporters of the values implicit in civil liberties than the other students.
In this sense also, they are surely conformists.
Of course I hope Hal can also, but those hopes are much more faint ''.
The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.
But I will also remind them that I have always been inclined to skepticism, to a kind of Laodicean lack of commitment so far as public affairs are concerned ; ;

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