screech owl

See also: screech-owl

English

an eastern screech owl Megascops asio.

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

2. (UK) A common barn owl, of species Tyto alba, found almost worldwide.
3. A mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus).

Derived terms

• 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)
  • †Virgin Islands screech owl (Megascops nudipes newtoni)
• white-throated screech owl (Megascops albogularis)
• Santa Marta screech owl (Megascops gilesi)

Translations

Megascops

• Alabama: ofolo
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can:
• Chickasaw: ofolo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鳴角鴞／鸣角鸮 (zh) (míngjiǎoxiāo), 鳴角梟／鸣角枭 (míngjiǎoxiāo)

• Czech: výreček m
• Dutch: schreeuwuil (nl) m
• Finnish: kirkupöllönen (fi)
• French: petit-duc maculé (fr) m
• German: Kreischeule f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can:
• Hungarian: lármáskuvik
• Irish: ulscréachóg f, scréachóg reilige f
• Italian: gufo comune m:
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can:
• Korean: please add this translation if you can:
• Latin: ulula f
• Manx: hullad-screeagh f
• Mi'kmaq: gu'gu'gwes anim (Nova Scotia)
• Navajo: tsidiłdǫǫhii
• Norwegian: lundugle
• Ojibwe: gaakaabishiinh
• Polish: syczoń m
• Portuguese: corujinha (pt) f
• Russian: совка (ru) (sovka)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgreuchag-oidhche f
• Spanish: autillo
• Swahili: mtiti
• Vietnamese: cú mèo (vi)

Tyto alba — see western barn owl

Turdus viscivorus — see mistle thrush