Chouette

Chouette is a French word meaning "owl" which has other uses.

Species of owl

• Chouette D'Ussher, the Rufous fishing owl (Scotopelia ussheri)

Uses relating to owls

• La chouette, a character portraying an owl in the opera L'enfant et les sortilèges by French composer Maurice Ravel
• "La chouette", a song by French composer Jeanne Herscher-Clément
• La chouette, a series of short CGI-animated episodes for children's television; see The Owl (TV series)
• La chouette aveugle, the original French name of The Blind Owl (film) of 1987
• La chouette d'or, a French treasure hunt created by Régis Hauser in 1993; see the Golden Owl quest
• "La chouette hulotte" (the tawny owl), a piece for solo piano in Catalogue d'oiseaux (1956–58) by French composer Olivier Messiaen
• Le cri de la chouette, an autobiographical novel of 1972 by Hervé Bazin
• Girouette la chouette, a children's book of 2007 by Nicole Tourneur
• Quand la chouette s'envole, a 1979 publication of Alexandre Astruc

Other uses

• Backgammon chouette, a variant of the game of backgammon for three or more players
• Chouette Records, a US recording company
• Éditions Chouette / Chouette Publishing, based in Montreal, Canada, known for children's books featuring Caillou
• GPSO 92 Issy, nicknamed Les Chouettes

See also

• All pages with titles containing Chouette