"You don't see too many of them big snow owls low down this way now."

"Famous Shoes don't like these snow owls-- that's four we've seen now," Augustus said.

The woods gave answer: the rustle of leaves, the icy rush of the stream, a distant hoot of a snow owl.

"The snow owls in that Audubon print represent wisdom, and the aardvark over there represents a thick skin," she said with rueful delight.

Instead he lifted his fist to his mouth and hooted like a snow owl.

The hoot of a snow owl issued incongru- ously from the snarling hound muzzle.

A nightingale called softly from the treetops high over their heads, and farther away came the long, lonely hoot of a snow owl.

She displayed her shapeshifting abilities as she assumed the form of a snow owl and a white wolf when trying to capture Wolverine.

To edition of his vast research of history, Buzzanco also has researched the effects of diabetes in young snow owls.

Somewhere high up, a snow owl hooted in the pines, then fell silent.