Tawny (given name)

Tawny refers to a pale orange-brown colour. It is used in the names of organisms with such colouring. It is also a given or assumed name for people, mostly women. In heraldry, it is often called tenné.

Birds

• Tawny Antpitta, Grallaria quitensis
• Tawny Eagle, Aquila rapax
• Tawny Fish Owl, Ketupa flavipes
• Tawny Frogmouth, Podargus strigoides
• Tawny Grassbird, Megalurus timoriensis
• Tawny Lark, Galerida deva, also known as Syke's Lark
• Tawny Owl, Strix aluco
• Hume's Tawny Owl, Strix butleri, also known as Hume's Owl
• Tawny Piculet, Picumnus fulvescens
• Tawny Pipit, Anthus campestris
• Black-and-tawny Seedeater, Sporophila nigrorufa
• Tawny Straightbill, Timeliopsis griseigula
• Tawny Tit-spinetail, Leptasthenura yanacensis
• Tawny-backed Fantail, Rhipidura superflua
• Tawny-bellied Babbler, Dumetia hyperythra
• Tawny-bellied Hermit, Phaethornis syrmatophorus
• Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl, Megascops watsonii
• Tawny-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila hypoxantha
• Tawny-breasted Flycatcher, Myiobius villosus
• Tawny-breasted Honeyeater, Xanthotis flaviventer
• Tawny-breasted Parrotfinch, Erythrura hyperythra
• Tawny-breasted Tinamou, Nothocercus julius
• Tawny-breasted Wren-babbler, Spelaeornis longicaudatus
• Tawny-browed Owl, Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana
• Tawny-capped Euphonia, Euphonia anneae
• Tawny-chested Flycatcher, Aphanotriccus capitalis, also known as Salvin's Flycatcher
• Tawny-collared Nightjar, Caprimulgus salvini
• Tawny-crested Tanager, Tachyphonus delatrii
• Tawny-crowned Greenlet, Hylophilus ochraceiceps
• Tawny-crowned Honeyeater, Phylidonyris melanops
• Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant, Euscarthmus meloryphus
• Tawny-faced Gnatwren, Microbates cinereiventris
• Tawny-faced Quail, Rhynchortyx cinctus
• Tawny-flanked Prinia, Prinia subflava, related to the Plain Prinia
• Tawny-headed Mountain Finch, Leucosticte sillemi
• Tawny-headed Swallow, Alopochelidon fucata
• Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet, Phyllomyias uropygialis
• Tawny-shouldered Blackbird, Agelaius humeralis
• Tawny-throated Dotterel, Oreopholus ruficollis
• Tawny-throated Leaftosser, Sclerurus mexicanus
• Tawny-tufted Toucanet, Selenidera nattereri
• Tawny-winged Woodcreeper, Dendrocincla anabatina

Other organisms

• Tawny Cat Snake, Boiga ochracea, snake of the family Colubridae
• Tawny Daylily, Hemerocallis fulva, also known as Orange Daylily, plant of the family Hemerocallidaceae
• Tawny Grisette, Amanita fulva, mushroom of the family Amanitaceae
• Tawny Mime, Papilio (Chilasa) agestor, butterfly of the family Papilionidae
• Tawny Nurse Shark, Nebrius ferrugineusor, also known as Giant Sleepy Shark, nurse shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae
• Tawny Prominent, Nadata gibbosa, also known as Rough Prominent, moth of the family Notodontidae.
• Tawny Rajah, Charaxes bernardus, butterfly of the family Nymphalidae
• Scarce Tawny Rajah, Charaxes aristogiton, butterfly of the family Nymphalidae
• Tawny Speckled Pug, Eupithecia icterata, moth of the family Geometridae
• Tawny-Bellied Cotton Rat, Sigmodon fulviventer, rodent of the family Muridae

People

• Tawny Cypress (b.1976), American actress
• Tawny Little (b.1956), American television newsreader
• Tawny Kitaen (b.1961), American actress
• Tawny Moyer (b. 1958), American actress
• Tawny Peaks (b.1961), big-bust model, stripper and housewife
• Tawny Roberts (b.1979), American pornographic actress.
• Tawny Taylor, American romance author

Miscellaneous

• In heraldry, 'Tenné' or 'tawny' is an orangish brown colour
• Mister Tawky Tawny, a fictional character in the Marvel Family comics
• The 'Tawny Man' trilogy, fantasy book series by writer Robin Hobb
• Tawny PortTawny Spreadborough model
• "Tawny" is the title of a 1954 record album by entertainer Jackie Gleason