According to German Wikipedia, the Rauhfußkauz has its name from its feathered feet. But it isn’t the only one, as e.g. the Snowy Owl also has this feature.
According to German Wikipedia, the Rauhfußkauz has its name from its feathered feet. But it isn’t the only one, as e.g. the Snowy Owl also has this feature.
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.
Today, this Drachme coin is depicted on the reverse side of the Greek 1 Euro coin:
Thank you for the nice conversation.
Precisely the city of Munich had its LiMux system.
Or the Barn Owl which commonly is found in barns.
You may also call a grumpy person, especially men, Kauz (der Kauz is male in German). The use of Eule for especially women (die Eule is female in German), is also common, but not exactly as wise, but for strange esoteric women.
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.
The name Steinkauz refers to the location they use for breeding, which are, beside tree hollows, barns, chapells and wine cellars built of stone.
Actually I find the explanation of @[email protected] on the difference between Eule and Kauz very plausible.
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”
Yes, they are impressive and, of course, beautiful. Sadly, as “animal rights enthusiasts” broke into the shelter and released him, this one isn’t alive anymore.
In a wildlife shelter close by, there was a young flightless Eagle Owl. When you approached his cage, he was quite loudly shouting: “Uhu! Uhu!”
The last champignon dish you’re going to prepare.
In Germany, you may also use the built in DVB-C receiver of the TV for free TV and an additional CI module + card for pay TV. But cable companies want you to use their set top boxes.
But, yes, if you use a set top box an extra speakers with your TV, the TV basically becomes a large monitor with a remote (which isn’t necessary as the set top box usually comes with a remote).
Why does he also give the plural forms of his pronouns?
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.
Similar for me. I have an old Philips “smart” TV (actually today it is very dumb as basically all services are disabled and all apps heavily outdated) which I occasionally use for watching TV, but most times I use the attached Raspberry Pi with Kodi for watching German public broadcaster’s Mediathek, Youtube or Amazon Prime.
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.).
A TV usually comes with a remote, a monitor doesn’t. Additionally, you can use it to watch linear TV if you don’t feel like making a selection.
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”.
Tbf, the white voice technique they are using isn’t distinctively Polish, it is relatively common in eastern Europe, e.g. the Ukrainian group GoA uses it as well.