The Halloween season is upon us, so let"s meet one of the holiday"s icons: the great horned owl. With its keen vision, eerie vocalizations, and silent flight, this owl has historically been revered and feared. In folklore and mythology, owls were considered symbols of wisdom and omens of death. On Samhain, the Celtic precursor to Halloween, the owl was believed to be the kin of roaming spirits.
Great horned owl
Today in History
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National Trails Day
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Crescent Lake near Dunhuang, China
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World Bee Day
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First day of National Park Week
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Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, New Mexico
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Old underground cellar, Bavaria, Germany
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Vinh Hy Bay, Vietnam
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Seitan Limania Beach, Crete
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Songkran—Thai New Year
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The mountaintop of toppled gods
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Happy World Meteorological Day
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Life in the slow lane
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Gone ‘lightseeing’ in Berlin
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Thousand Islands region, St. Lawrence River, US-Canada border
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Ceremony Hall at Sweden s Icehotel
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International Day for Biological Diversity
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The monsoon arrives in the desert
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Rockin with the rockhoppers
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National Bison Day
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Mooncake time
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And to think that I saw it in Cappadocia
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International Day for Monuments and Sites
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Is this Minecraft headquarters?
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Hen Galan
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Mardi Gras
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La Geria wine region, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
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Sutherland Falls in Fiordland National Park
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Super sandy Sweet 16
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Snow aglow in central Japan
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European Day of Parks
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