Friday, July 11, 2008

Bubo bubo - Eurasian Great Horned Owl



"Pallada bubo vehit, sed eam rota nulla figurat.
Bubulat horrendum ferali murmure bubo.
Humani generi tristia fata ferens. Anth.Lat.939,762,37."
quoted in The Birds of the Latin Poets by Ernest Whitney Martin
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