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  • See it the other way around: A barn isn’t a proper barn without accommodating a Barn Owl.
    However, in German, some birds are called by their current habitat: Feldlerche (Eurasian Skylark), Feldsperling (Eurasian Tree Sparrow), Haussperling (House Sparrow), Hausrotschwanz (Black Redstart), Gartenrotschwanz (Common Redstart), … Yet, one may ask: Where did they live before there were fields, houses, and gardens?

    Linguistic separation of the Barn Owls from the True Owls makes somewhat sense as they are the two separate families of the owls.

    In the German Wikipedia article on owls Strigiformes I also found an explanation of the origin of the two terms Eule and Kauz:

    The two German terms have developed onomatopoeically from the calls of owls. “Eule” refers to the hooting calls, while “Kauz” is a paraphrase of the short and distinctive calls.

    Interestingly, the Eulen you are not supposed to carry to Athens (Eulen nach Athen tragen means doing something useless), are originally Steinkäuze (Athene Noctua) that were a symbol of the godess Athene and were depicted on the reverse side of the old Drachme coins from Athens.

    Drachme from Athens 454 to 404 B.C.

    Today, this Drachme coin is depicted on the reverse side of the Greek 1 Euro coin:

    Geek 1 Euro

    Thank you for the nice conversation.





  • He German Wikipedia of the Habichtskauz says:

    The colouring of the underwings and tail bears a certain resemblance to that of young Eurasian Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis), a fact that is reflected in the German trivial name.

    Young Eurasian Goshawks

    The name Steinkauz refers to the location they use for breeding, which are, beside tree hollows, barns, chapells and wine cellars built of stone.



  • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgtoSuperbowl@lemmy.worldUral Owl
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    As you were wondering about the translations: Schleiereule - “Veil Owl”
    Zwergohreule - “Dwarf Ear Owl”
    Schnee-Eule - “Snow Owl”
    Sperber-Eule - “Sparrowhawk Owl”
    Sperlingskauz - “Sparrow Owl”
    Steinkauz - “Stone Owl”
    Waldkauz - “Forest Owl”
    Habichtskauz - “Goshawk Owl”
    Waldohreule - “Forest Ear Owl”
    Sumpfohreule - “Swamp Ear Owl”
    Rauhfußkauz - “Scraggly Foot Owl”








  • One bugfix, if you want so, is that in Germany, on federal level, we only have one chamber of pairlament, the Bundestag, that is directly elected by the people. The other chamber of pairlament, the Bundesrat, is a pairlament constituted of representatives of the governments of the federal states, i.e. a pairlament of the executive.



  • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldHere we are
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    Yet, the local representatives in the pairlaments (Bundestag, Landtag) represent districts of approximately the same population number. Thus, in our first chamber, no vote has more value than another.

    But in the Bundesrat, which comes closest to the US senate, states with higher population number do have more representatives than small states, which weakens the inequality of votes, yet still one vote from Bremen (population 700k, 3 representatives) has 13 times as much value as one from NRW (p. 18 mio, 6 rep.).



  • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldManstrual cycles
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    AfaIk, Shelter is using the built in work profile of Android, as not every UI/ vendor has made it available to the users. (There is no visible button or option in the settings menu.)
    E.g. Samsung smartphones have a “work mode”, but the last time I’ve used it (It may be different in current models), it only allowed for second accounts of selected apps like WhatsApp and hence, was a crippled implentation of the Android feature. My Android 11 Samsung tablet has complete multi user support, not only “work mode”.