diff --git a/owlbot.py b/owlbot.py
index 2e4b00bc9..b80c1768c 100644
--- a/owlbot.py
+++ b/owlbot.py
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
     if count < 1:
         raise Exception(".coveragerc replacement failed.")
 
-    s.move([library], excludes=["**/gapic_version.py", "README.rst", "docs/**/*", "setup.py", "testing/constraints-3.7.txt", "testing/constraints-3.8.txt"])
+    s.move([library], excludes=["**/gapic_version.py", "README.rst", "docs/**/*", "setup.py", "testing/constraints-3.7.txt", "testing/constraints-3.8.txt", "noxfile.py"])
 s.remove_staging_dirs()
 
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