The classic twit-twoo is actually a duet
![Twit-twoo illustration: showing how the classic owl sound is actually a duet with a female and male tawny owl doing a "kewick" and "whoo"](https://images.prismic.io/sketchplanations/5b182d44-97e3-41c6-a4af-312173ced098_181147120754.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=3840&q=50)
Funny how it can take nearly 40 years to learn that something as commonplace as the stereotypical owl sound is made, not by one owl, but as a duet between the male and female tawny owls.
Also see: how owls’ necks turn so far around, or why do birds migrate so far.
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