Parent eagle-owl bringing food to its young captured in a coop. Every night, the parent owls brought fresh partridge, moorfowl, even a lamb. From an anecdote by mineralogist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt in Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Stockholm. Great horned owl or Eurasian eagle-owl, Bubo bubo. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and a

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Parent eagle-owl bringing food to its young captured in a coop. Every night, the parent owls brought fresh partridge, moorfowl, even a lamb. From an anecdote by mineralogist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt in Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Stockholm. Great horned owl or Eurasian eagle-owl, Bubo bubo. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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