The small owl, with brown and white feathers and big golden eyes, had been confused with a similar-looking species for more than a century.

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"That was the first year they'd been put in trees at the cemetery, and that's what ruffled people's feathers, " said Carmen Small, of nearby Robbinston.

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The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind, and the wind turned their feathers.

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