screech owl
See also: screech-owl
English edit
Etymology edit
From the fact that these species are owls which emit screeching calls.
Noun edit
screech owl (plural screech owls)
- 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.
- (UK) A common barn owl, of species Tyto alba, found almost worldwide.
- A mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus).
Derived terms edit
- eastern screech owl (Megascops asio)
- western screech owl (Megascops kennicottii)
- Balsas screech owl (Megascops seductus)
- Pacific screech owl (Megascops cooperi)
- whiskered screech owl (Megascops trichopsis)
- tropical screech owl (Megascops choliba)
- West Peruvian screech owl (Megascops roboratus)
- Koepcke's screech owl (Megascops koepckeae)
- bare-shanked screech owl (Megascops clarkii)
- bearded screech owl (Megascops barbarus)
- rufescent screech owl (Megascops ingens)
- cinnamon screech owl (Megascops petersoni)
- cloud-forest screech owl (Megascops marshalli)
- tawny-bellied screech owl (Megascops watsonii)
- Middle American screech owl (Megascops guatemalae)
- vermiculated screech owl (Megascops vermiculatus)
- foothill screech owl (Megascops roraimae)
- Chocó screech owl (Megascops centralis)
- Yungas screech owl (Megascops hoyi)
- black-capped screech owl (Megascops atricapilla)
- long-tufted screech owl (Megascops sanctaecatarinae)
- Puerto Rican screech owl (Megascops nudipes)
- white-throated screech owl (Megascops albogularis)
- Santa Marta screech owl (Megascops gilesi)
Translations edit
Megascops
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Tyto alba — see western barn owl
Turdus viscivorus — see mistle thrush