Corujas
In an early post I wrote that I didn't think that the vocabulary in Harry Potter (for example the word for owl which is coruja) would be one that I would need very much. Since then I have seen owls nearly every day and a number of them every day.

I think the owls we see are 'burrowing owls' and if so, these are an endangered species. They are unusual in that they are active during the day and as their name suggests, live in burrows. They seem to like the area around the sand dunes and scrubland. I have definitely seen more owls in the last couple of months than I have seen in my entire life. Not something I would have expected from this visit to Brazil.