The species of birds confirmed as poisoned and included in the incidents are red kite, buzzard, golden eagle, tawny owl, and peregrine falcon.

BBC: Red Kite

Yet this was like no owl I had ever heard before: not the furry hoot of a tawny or the screech of a barn owl.

BBC: England��s ghostly South Downs Way

Andrea pauses among tawny grasses to show me her owl call.

NPR: Waging a One-Woman War Against Black Flies