screech owl in English

noun
1
a small American owl with a screeching call and distinctive ear tufts.
I leave you with one of the best passages of a description of a flock of blue jays mobbing a screech owl .

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1. The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

2. Allopatric (not comparable) Not living in the same territory; geographically isolated and thus unable to crossbreed1989, Western Birds, Volumes 20-21, page 9, The similarly sized Burrowing Owl and Western Screech-Owl were the most Allopatric of any species pair considered here; the percentage of similarity in their diets was 67%.

3. A fatal disease clinically and pathologically indistinguishable from IBDF resulted from FHV inoculation of the following species representing 7 families; Swain-son’s hawk (Buteo swainsoni) Cooper’s hawk (Accipiter cooperi) sharp-shinned hawk (A. striatus) great horned owl (Bubo virgianus) screech owl (Otus asio) snowy owl (Nyctea scandiaca) American coot (Fulica americana) green heron (Butorides virescens) budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) Amazon parrot (Amazona ocrocephala) ring-necked dove (Streptopelia risoria) and baby muscovy ducks (Cairina moschata).