Tawny owl in Modřanská rokle

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Tags: birds night

Creator: laso (Stanislav Abrahám)

Submitted: 2017-05-22

Recorded: 2017-05-22

Location: 50.0029°W 14.4350°N

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Download: pustik_obecny_modranska_rokle.mp3

The commonly heard female contact call is a shrill, kew-wick but the male has a quavering advertising song hoo...ho, ho, hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. William Shakespeare used this owl's song in Love's Labour's Lost (Act 5, Scene 2) as "Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot", but this stereotypical call is actually a duet, with the female making the kew-wick sound, and the male responding hooo. (Wiki)