Kind of a weird update out of nowhere, but there was a modern revival of the Whig name for a party I'm just learning about now; it ceased to function two years ago, but anyway, they used an owl. However, the original (and, honestly, only one that ever actually mattered) were never really associated with the bird. But, I have seen the owl used as a symbol for the 1800 Whigs retroactively, so if you see that in like a YouTube thumbnail (that's where I saw it) or something like that, that's where they got that.
Kind of a weird update out of nowhere, but there was a modern revival of the Whig name for a party I'm just learning about now; it ceased to function two years ago, but anyway, they used an owl. However, the original (and, honestly, only one that ever actually mattered) were never really associated with the bird. But, I have seen the owl used as a symbol for the 1800 Whigs retroactively, so if you see that in like a YouTube thumbnail (that's where I saw it) or something like that, that's where they got that.