screech owl

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screech owl

Any of various small owls of the genus Otus, especially O. asio, of North America, having ear tufts and a quavering whistlelike call.

screech owl

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a small North American owl, Otus asio, having ear tufts and a reddish-brown or grey plumage

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Brit any owl that utters a screeching cry

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Noun	1.	screech owl - any owl that has a screeching cry bird of Minerva, bird of night, owl, hooter - nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes
	2.	screech owl - small North American owl having hornlike tufts of feathers whose call sounds like a quavering whistle Otus asio bird of Minerva, bird of night, owl, hooter - nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes genus Otus, Otus - a genus of Strigidae

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screech owl

n → Schleiereule f

screech owl n → gufo comune

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Not even rats in the wall, for they were starved out, or rather were never baited in -- only squirrels on the roof and under the floor, a whip-poor-will on the ridge-pole, a blue jay screaming beneath the window, a hare or woodchuck under the house, a screech owl or a cat owl behind it, a flock of wild geese or a laughing loon on the pond, and a fox to bark in the night.

Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context

Then, as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination, --the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech owl, to the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Irving, Washington View in context

Every sound startled them, even that of their own footsteps among the dry leaves, and the hooting of a screech owl, from the shattered chimney of the neighboring ruin, made their blood run cold.

Adventure of the Black Fisherman by Irving, Washington View in context

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