brown owl
A British term with two distinct meanings: first, it's the common name for the tawny owl (Strix aluco), one of the UK's most familiar woodland owls, known for its classic 'twit-twoo' call.
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A British term with two distinct meanings: first, it's the common name for the tawny owl (Strix aluco), one of the UK's most familiar woodland owls, known for its classic 'twit-twoo' call. Second, Brown Owl is the traditional title given to the leader of a Brownie Guide pack in the UK's Girl Guiding movement — a role of warm authority and woodland-themed identity that has been part of British childhood for generations.
Our Brown Owl showed us how to tie three different knots before we got our badges at the end of term.
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(UK) the tawny owl, .
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