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Owl is an aged wise owl who likes to tell stories and can be very serious, although most of time he is just calm and even has a happy-go-lucky attitude at times. He speaks in a Strong Southern English with a Strong Southern English accent.

Owl's house is located on a tree in the middle of the Hundred Acre Wood. He enjoys tea and telling old stories about his relatives and himself. Owl was introduced in the book Winnie-the-Pooh and appeared as a recurring character in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. He appeared in six movies: including The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,  Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin, and Winnie the Pooh: The Seasons of Giving.

For unknown reasons, however, after The Book of Pooh and educational specials, Owl ceased to appear in other Disney productions, thus becoming the only main character of A.A. Milne’s books not appearing in the CGI series My Friends Tigger & Pooh. Some have speculated, however, that Owl’s role as a character to which the others turned to for advice did not fit the nature of My Friends Tigger & Pooh, in which the Super Sleuths work to solve the wood’s problems. He did, however, return in the 2011 Winnie the Pooh film, and the 2018 Christopher Robin film.

History[]

Owl was hatched in a tree near Eeyore's Gloomy Place in the Hundred Acre Wood. He recalled his mother scraping into the bark to literally mark the occasion. Owl currently resides at the top of a tree. In Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Owl's house was knocked down by the strong winds. He later moved into Piglet's house, but subsequent media depicts Owl still living in his original treehouse.

Owl is the second of four characters being based directly off of real animals instead of stuffed toys. A stuffed toy version of Owl later appears in Christoper Robin's live action bedroom.

Owl's House originally was mounted on a tree known as The Chestnuts. Since then Owl's House has been destroyed many times, such as in The Blustery Day, and also in The Masked Offender.

Personality[]

Owl is very intelligent compared to most other characters, but is often boastful, and is not quite as knowledgeable as Rabbit.

Owl does not read or spell very well - he spells his own name "Wol", writes "A very happy birthday, with love from Pooh" as "Hipy Papy Bthuthdth Thuthda Bthuthdy", and misreads "School" as "Skull". He is on the same intelligence level as Gopher.

Owl does not travel underground. Episodes and other stories that involve the need to look at the entire Hundred Acre Wood, or to escape from floods, usually feature Owl.

He also taught Kessie how to fly.

Appearances[]

Books[]

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TV specials[]

Movies[]

Songs[]

Songs by Owl include:

Internationally[]

Family[]

Owl has a young cousin called Dexter who came to visit him in a couple of episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

Owl seems to be very interested in his family’s history, and often shares stories with his friends about his many notable relatives. Through the years, Owl has been collecting old pictures of his relatives and displaying them on a wall of his house. When put together, the pictures form Owl’s family tree.

Trivia[]

  • Owl spells his name as ‘Wol’ and has trouble remembering things he had recently said.
  • Owl’s assumption that Christopher Robin was kidnapped by a Backson proves that, in the books, Owl is too quick to make assumptions and for this reason cannot be too trusted. But in Winnie-the-Pooh (2011 film), a real Backson appears during the end credits. This proves that sometimes Owl can be trusted.
  • He had never seen a real Heffalump.
  • His aunt Lucille wanted to teach him to fly while he was still in the egg.
  • Owl's level of literacy fluctuates. In Many Adventures and A Day For Eeyore his spelling is utterly mangled. In The Tigger Movie and Winnie the Pooh: ABCs he seems perfectly fluent in spelling. The 2011 film takes the middle road, he can "de-code" most of Christopher Robin's crude letter except for one crucial detail
  • Similar to Rabbit and Gopher, Owl is designed to represent a realistic animal, though some of the framing devices still show Owl in toy form.
  • He is the second character besides Gopher not to appear in My Friends Tigger & Pooh.
  • According to him in Winnie the Pooh (2011 film), his mother was the one who initially hollowed out the hole in his tree.
  • "In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water" reveals that he has or had an aunt who allegedly laid a seagull's egg by mistake (although probably what actually happened is that a seagull laid an egg in her nest) and that his "dorsal muscles" don't enable him to give people rides on his back.
  • "In Which Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing" reveals that he has an uncle named Robert, who is still alive but who he doesn't see as often now due to Robert living far away.
  • "To Catch a Hiccup" reveals that he has a relative named Ebenezer, whose method of curing hiccups involved standing upside down to make them "hicc down".
  • He appears to have a sweet tooth in a similar way to Pooh, but unlike Pooh, Owl seems to be a bit insecure about it -- in "In Which Christopher Robin Gives a Pooh Party and We Say Goodbye", he feels it's "beneath him" to talk about iced cakes, and in "Sham Pooh", he enjoys honey, but this makes him fear that he has become Pooh.

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