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screech owl

1. a small North American owl, Otus asio, having ear tufts and a reddish-brown or grey plumage
2. Brit any owl that utters a screeching cry
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Neurologic examination revealed depressed mentation but otherwise appeared normal for a screech owl under daylight conditions.
If you live in the west, there is a Western screech owl. Their habitats don't overlap, so identification can be made based on your location.
Eastern bluebirds, great crested flycatchers, eastern screech owls, fox squirrels, flying squirrels, tree frogs--the list goes on.
She won the national Younkin-Rivera Prize for Young Writers for poetry in 2008, and this year her work appeared in The Screech Owl and Busting and Droning Magazine.
The day I met Nada, she was releasing a tiny screech owl that had been knocked for a loop by a hailstorm.
After tracking Yafano's eBay account, officers confirmed that the sale of the Western Screech Owl was completed in November 2012 and the bird had been exported to a US taxidermist - without a valid export permit.
His father maintains that the dreadful wailing noise they hear is a screech owl or a car alarm, but twelve-year-old Conor O'Neill's grandfather, versed in Irish folklore, knows better: it is a banshee.
SCREECH OWL: Did you know that only a few owls hoot?
know how to keep the orphaned screech owl before release
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One time, years ago, I walked in on a screech owl. That was scary!
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