Screech owl

"Screech owl" in a Sentence (3 examples)

The screech owls winter in the north and are distinctly farsighted in preparing for winter.

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.

The poet Propertius refers to a philtre containing snake bones, a toad, and the feathers of a screech-owl.

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