I would consider an owl to be a "nocturnal raptor" (generaly speaking -
obviously not all owl species are nocturnal in which case they would be
diurnal or crepuscular raptors).

Charles E. Swift
charless at umich.edu
Moscow, Idaho

On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Kelly Cassidy wrote:

> Does the term "raptor" generally include owls?
>
> Kelly (I get all my scientific facts from Speilberg movies) Cassidy
>