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Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, launched the first OWL, in 1994. Its OWL is freely available online to all, and includes handouts, specific subject information, resources geared towards students in grades 7–12, [1] and citation formatting help with MLA, APA and other forms. [2]
Lower-case initial letters are used for each part of common (vernacular) names of species, genera, families and all other taxonomic levels (bacteria, zebra, bottlenose dolphin, mountain maple, gray wolf, red-winged blackbird), except where they contain a proper name (Przewalski's horse, Amur tiger, Roosevelt elk).
APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences , including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology.
APA [2] APA style: American Psychological Association: Psychology, social sciences: American English: apastyle.apa.org: CBE [3] Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 6th edition [a] Council of Biology Editors: Science, especially life sciences: American English: CGEL [4] Cambridge Grammar of the ...
The Stygian owl is 38 to 46 cm (15 to 18 in) long and weighs about 400 to 675 g (14 to 24 oz). The sexes have similar very dark plumage. (The adjective "Stygian" means "of, or relating to, the River Styx", but is more widely applied to anything that is dark or dismal.)
Scops owls are typical owls in family Strigidae belonging to the genus Otus and are restricted to the Old World. Otus is the largest genus of owls with 59 species.Scops owls are colored in various brownish hues, sometimes with a lighter underside and/or face, which helps to camouflage them against the bark of trees.
To better triangulate sounds and make hunting easier, the pygmy owl's ears may be asymmetrically placed. [12] Female owls tend to be bigger than males. [13] Some species of pygmy owl, including the northern pygmy owl, have ocelli on the back of their heads. [14] These eyespots may contribute to the owls' self-defense against mobbing. [15]
The great grey owl (Strix nebulosa) (also great gray owl in American English) is a true owl, and is the world's largest species of owl by length. It is distributed across the Northern Hemisphere , and it is the only species in the genus Strix found in both Eastern and Western Hemispheres.