The owl is a bird of prey.
Owl, Owls, or OWL may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Fictional entities
Owl (comics), the name of several comics characters Owl (Winnie the Pooh)
Film and television Owl (film), a 2003 Japanese black comedy The Owl (1927 film), a German silent film The Owl (1991 film), an American television film The Owl (TV series), a French series of animated shorts for children OWL/TV, a Canadian children's educational television series 1985–1994 "Owls" (Millennium), a television episode
Literature "The Owl" (fairy tale), a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm OWL (magazine), a Canadian children's educational magazine; basis of the OWL/TV series The Owl (magazine): A Wednesday Journal of Politics and Society, a satirical society newspaper published in London 1864–1870
Music Owl (band), a Los Angeles–based hard-rock band, and their self-titled 2009 album Owls (band), a Chicago-based rock band Owls (album), 2001 Of Wondrous Legends, or O.W.L., an American psych folk band, and their self-titled 1971 album The Four Owls, or The Owls, a British hip hop group The Owl (album), by the Zac Brown Band, 2019 Owl, an album by Qwel & Maker, 2010 "Owl", a song by the Cat Empire from the album Where the Angels Fall, 2023
Other uses in arts and entertainment Owl (sculpture), a public statue in Canberra, Australia NASPA Word List, or OWL, the official word list for Scrabble in North America
Businesses and organizations Older Women's League, an American organization Order of Owls, an American fraternal order Owl Labs, a company that builds remote conferencing devices The Owl Drug Company, an American drug retailer
Languages Owl (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language uniliteral Old Welsh, ISO 639 language code owl
Military HMS Owl, the name of a British ship and a shore establishment USS Owl, the name of two American ships CSS Owl, a Confederate States Navy blockade runner in the American Civil War Curtiss O-52 Owl, an American observation aircraft before and during World War II
People Owl Chapman, a short-board surfer Owl Fisher (born 1991), an Icelandic journalist Owl Goingback (born 1959), American author Henry Owl (1895–1980) Cherokee educator, activist, historian Lula Owl Gloyne (1891–1985), born as Louisiana Leta Owl, Cherokee nurse
Places Owl Creek (disambiguation) Owl Mountains, Poland Owl Peak, Wyoming, U.S. Owl River (disambiguation) Olympic–Wallowa Lineament (OWL), a physiographic feature in Washington State, U.S. Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL), an area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Science and technology Astronomy NGC 457, an open star cluster also known as the Owl Cluster Owl Nebula, in the constellation Ursa Major Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope
Computing Object Windows Library, a C++ object-oriented application framework Online Watch Link, a commercial web application for Neighbourhood Watch schemes Openwall Project (Owl), a security-enhanced Linux distribution Owl (AOL), a user-generated content site created by AOL in 2010 Owl Scientific Computing, a software system for scientific and engineering computing Web Ontology Language, a family of knowledge representation languages
Sports 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 Kennesaw State Owls, the athletic teams of Kennesaw State University Orem Owlz, a minor league baseball team Owls, the athletic teams of Keene State College Owls, the athletic teams of the University of Maine at Presque Isle Lunar Owls BC, a basketball club based in Miami, Florida 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., an English football club nicknamed "The Owls" OWLS AC Leicester, an English athletics club Guildford Owls, an Australian rugby league club Overwatch League, a professional esports league
Transportation OWLS, a mnemonic used by general aviation airplane pilots Owl service, or public transport night service Night Owl (train), between Boston and Washington, D.C. Owl a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and later Erie Lackawanna Railway Owl Limited a train of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company Aspark Owl, a Japanese electric sports car
Other uses Owl butterfly, a member of the genus Caligo Olympic–Wallowa Lineament, a geological feature in the state of Washington Online Writing Lab, an extension of a university writing center Our Whole Lives, a comprehensive sexuality curriculum from the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ
See also
Owl Club (disambiguation) Night owl (person), a nocturnal person OWLeS, the Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems study project