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screech owl

See also: screech-owl

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an eastern screech owl Megascops asio.

Etymology

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From the fact that these species are owls which emit screeching calls.

Noun

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screech owl (plural screech owls)

  1. Any New World owl of genus Megascops.
    • 1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 102:
      The screech owls winter in the north and are distinctly farsighted in preparing for winter.
    • 1921, Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Blue-Flag in the Bog”, in Second April‎[1]:
      And I listened for a voice;— / But my heart was all I heard; / Not a screech-owl, not a loon, / Not a tree-toad said a word.
  2. (UK) A common barn owl, of species Tyto alba, found almost worldwide.
  3. A mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus).

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