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short-eared owl
[ shawrt-eerd ]
noun
- a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of short-eared owl1
An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
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Example Sentences
The common owl is indigenous, the long-eared owl resident, and the short-eared owl a regular winter visitor.
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In the matter of its nesting the Short-eared Owl presents us with another anomaly.
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Mr. Yarrell states that the Short-eared Owl is the only bird of prey in which he ever found the remains of a bat.
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But the short-eared owl is a regular migrant, coming over in flights like woodcock.
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One of the most remarkable of these is the Short-eared Owl, another the Woodcock.
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