Wood owl refers to several species of owls of genus Strix, with a round faces and no ear-tufts
- Spotted Wood-owl, Strix seloputo
- Mottled Wood-owl, Strix ocellata
- Brown Wood-owl, Strix leptogrammica
- Bartels's Wood-owl or Javan Wood-owl, Strix (leptogrammica) bartelsi
- Himalayan Wood-owl, Strix (leptogrammica) newarensis
- Barred Owl, Strix varia (also called wood owl)
- African Wood-owl, Strix woodfordii (formerly Ciccaba woodfordii)
Famous quotes containing the words wood and/or owl:
“Instead of calling on some scholar, I paid many a visit to particular trees, of kinds which are rare in this neighborhood, standing far away in the middle of some pasture, or in the depths of a wood or swamp, or on a hilltop.... These were the shrines I visited both summer and winter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The owl is abroad, the bat and the toad,
And so is the cat-a-mountain;
The ant and the mole sit both in a hole,
And frog peeps out o’ the fountain.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)