It was a wonderful moment.” In the book, Bailey says the owl was a female Eurasian eagle-owl, and he paid 400 yuan for it – which is just over £40 today. According to the Peregrine Fund ...

A female owl is normally around 25% larger ... The largest owl in the world is the Eurasian Eagle-Owl, with females growing to a length of around 75cm. It has distinctive tufts of feathers on ...

The first time I saw the cage where Flaco, the much-loved Eurasian eagle-owl, was kept ... lure in Flaco using a recording of a hooting female owl. The zoo warned about the dangers the owl ...