hoot owl

But it is not easy to tell whether the sound comes from a hoot owl or from the throat of a wild cat.

It reminded me of the great hoot-owl, listening, after its booming cry, for the stir of its frightened prey.

Very often they sighed, and sometimes there was a pensive quietness broken only by the hoot-owl.

The blind might hear September in the uproarious arguments of the crow, the despondent cries of katydid, tree toad, and hoot owl.

Once Andy awoke to hear a noise at a distance, but he soon figured out that this was nothing more than a hoot owl.