Owl (disambiguation)

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Owls are nocturnal birds of prey.

Owl, Owls or OWL may also refer to:

Places

On Earth

• Owl, Arizona, United States, an unincorporated community
• Owl Creek (Colorado), United States
• Owl Mountains, Poland
• Owl Nebula, in the constellation Ursa Major
• Owl Peak (Wyoming), United States
• Owl River (Manitoba), Canada

In space

• NGC 457, an open star cluster also known as the Owl Cluster

People

• Night owl, a nocturnal person
• Owl Goingback (born 1959), American author

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fairy tales

• The Owl (fairy tale), a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

Fictional entities

• Owl (Dell Comics), a comic book superhero
• Owl (Marvel Comics), a comic book supervillain
• Owl (Winnie the Pooh), in the Winnie the Pooh stories
• Owl (Farthing Wood), a fictional character from The Animals of Farthing Wood

Films

• Owl (film), a 2003 Japanese black comedy
• The Owl (film), a 1991 action genre television movie

Music

• Owl (band), Chris Wyse's band
• Owls (band), an indie-rock band from Chicago, Illinois
  • Owls (album), first studio album by the band

Periodicals

• OWL ( magazine), a children's educational magazine published in Canada; basis of the OWL/TV series
• The Owl (magazine): A Wednesday Journal of Politics and Society, a satirical society newspaper published in London from 1864 to 1870
• The Owl Journal, an inter-disciplinary journal published by students of the University of Oxford

Television

• OWL/TV, a children's educational television series that aired from 1985 to 1994
• "Owls" (Millennium), a season two episode of the TV series Millennium
• The Owl (TV series), a series of animated shorts

Language

• Owl (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language uniliteral
• owl, ISO 639 code for the Old Welsh language
• OWL, Web Ontology Language for authoring ontologies

Military

• CSS Owl, a Confederate States Navy blockade runner in the American Civil War
• Curtiss O-52 Owl, a United States Army Air Corps observation aircraft used before and during World War II
• HMS Owl, a ship and a shore establishment
• USS Owl, two ships

Organizations and enterprises

• Fraternal Order of Owls, a fraternal order of the United States
• Older Women's League (OWL—The Voice of Women 40+)
• Owl Club (Harvard), a men's only final club at Harvard College
• Owl Labs, a company that builds remote conferencing devices
• The Owl Club of South Africa
• The Owl Drug Company, an American drugs company named after the owl

Sports teams

• Bielawa Owls, an American football team based in Bielawa, Poland
• Chicago Owls, a defunct professional American football team based in Chicago
• Clinton Owls, a defunct minor league baseball team, based in Clinton, Iowa (1937–1938)
• Dayton Owls, a minor league ice hockey team in the International Hockey League for the 1977–1978 season
• Florida Atlantic Owls, the athletics teams of Florida Atlantic University
• Forest City Owls, a baseball team in the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer league
• Grand Rapids Owls, a defunct International Hockey League team
• Owls, the athletic teams of Keene State College
• Kennesaw State Owls, the athletic teams of Kennesaw State University
• Owls, the athletic teams of the University of Maine at Presque Isle
• Orem Owlz, a minor league baseball team
• Rice Owls, the athletic teams of Rice University
• Temple Owls, the athletic teams of Temple University
• Topeka Owls, a defunct Western Association minor league baseball team based in Topeka, Kansas
• Uni-Norths Owls, an Australian rugby union club
• Owls, the athletic teams of Westfield State University
• Sheffield Wednesday F.C., English football club nicknamed "The Owls"
• OWLS AC Leicester, an athletics club in Leicester, United Kingdom
• Guildford Owls, a rugby league club based in Guildford, New South Wales, Australia

Transportation

• The Night Owl, Amtrak night train between Boston and Washington, District of Columbia
• The Owl, Canadian National Railway night train between Regina and Saskatoon
• The Owl, Erie Lackawanna night train between Hoboken, New Jersey and Buffalo, New York, via The Poconos and Scranton

Acronym

• O. Winston Link, a photographer of steam locomotives
• Object Windows Library, an object-oriented software framework for creating Microsoft Windows applications, created by Borland
• Office Workstations Limited, UK software company and vendor of the hypertext program
• Official Tournament and Club Word List, the National Scrabble Association's official word authority for tournament Scrabble in North America
• Older Women's League, a US grassroots organization advocating for midlife and older women
• Olympic-Wallowa Lineament, a geological feature in the state of Washington
• Online Watch Link, Neighbourhood Watch management and messaging system
• Online Writing Lab, usually an extension of a college or university writing center
• OpenStreetMap Watch List, a service to track OpenStreetMap changes
• Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS), study project
• Openwall Project (Owl), a hardened Linux distribution
• Ordinary Wizarding Level, a test of magical aptitude in the Harry Potter novel series
• Ostwestfalen-Lippe, an area in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Our Whole Lives, a sexuality curriculum jointly produced by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ
• Overwatch League, professional eSports league for the video game Overwatch
• Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope that would use a 100-meter-diameter main reflector
• Web Ontology Language, a/k/a the OWL Ontology, a language for describing and sharing ontologies on the World Wide Web
• Outer White Lettering, a style of automobile tire

Other uses

• Night service (public transport), referred to as "owl service" in some cities
• Owl butterfly, a member of the genus Caligo
• Woodsy Owl, icon for the United States Forest Service most famous for the motto "Give a hoot — don't pollute!"