Screech Owl Definition

noun
Any of various small New World owls (genus Otus) of a worldwide family (Strigidae), characterized by feathered ear tufts and an eerie, wailing cry rather than a hoot.
Webster's New World
Any owl with such a cry.
Webster's New World
(UK) The barn owl, Tyto alba.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • Otus asio

Other Word Forms of Screech Owl

Noun

Singular:
screech owl
Plural:
screech-owls

Origin of Screech Owl

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

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Screech Owl Sentence Examples

  • The Texas screech-owl, the Texas woodpecker, and the road runner, or ground cuckoo, are found mostly in southern and south-western Texas.

  • A southern portion of this zone, comprising a narrow strip along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida and up the Atlantic coast to South Carolina, is semi-tropical, and is the northernmost habitation of several small mammals, the alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), the ground dove, white-tailed kite, Florida screech owl and Chapman s night-hawk.

  • The barn owl is a familiar bird, famed for it rasping screech which accounts for its other name the ' screech owl ' .

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