It was a wild sound, like the call of a screech owl.

No other Manhattan park is known to play host to a family of screech owls.

He didn't hear the screech owl that made the night hideous on the hill.

I've done a lot of work over the years with owls - the eastern screech owl.

The center is home to 141 animals, from screech owls to prairie dogs.

The call of a screech owl returning from his night's hunting split the air.

Our screech owl is still intimidated by a family of squirrels.

The dense trees provide habitat for many birds, including screech owls.

He recalled the screech owl that used to live in a long-dead tree.

Similar to other owls, the screech owl females are larger than the males of their species.

The screech owls are named for their piercing calls.

In a tree outside, a tiny fluffed-out screech owl made a chilling sound.

But in the middle of the night there was a great scream - like a screech owl - and a loud crashing sound.

There are also clean restrooms, rare as screech owls in city parks.

Some screech owls started singing about the delights of Comfies.

His roast was a screech owl in a sauce of glowing brimstone.

Hearing the familiar call of the screech owl, they realise that de Livardot has finally arrived.

The young of most screech owls are altricial to semialtricial.

The northern screech owls are found in Eastern States ec.

It's a screech owl, ready to challenge the electronic trespasser on its hunting territory.

The evolutionary relationships of the scops and screech owls are not entirely clear.

He gained screech owl medicine and became an owl prophet.

He sounded exactly like a screech owl.

They were previously considered to be the same species as the Eastern Screech Owl.

When other birds are still, the screech owls take up the strain, like mourning women their ancient u-lu-lu.

She hesitated for what was, to a megascops, quite a long time.

The latter name, however, more correctly applies to a different group of birds, the screech-owls in the genus Megascops.

All right, News One, I thought, taking off the scarf, you may not be a megascops, but you're a reasonably intelligent person.

If not, I'll put down unprofessional conduct, which would be true even if you were just an overeager megascops."

The species name, nudipes, makes reference to its bare legs and toes which are unusual among Megascops species.

In 2003, the AOU formally accepted the genus Megascops again.

All screech owls were formerly included in the genus Otus, but today they are placed in Megascops.

It is retained in Otus simply because it does not have the characteristic "song" or rapid trill of Megascops.

Screech Owl (Megascops asio)

Spoorn, Western Screech Owl, Megascops kennicottii, first lieutenant to Skench.

Virgin Islands Screech Owl, Megascops nudipes newtoni - extinct (1860s)

Screech owls or Screech-owls are typical owls (Strigidae) belonging to the genus Megascops.

The Colombian Screech Owl (Megascops colombianus) is a species of owl in the Strigidae family.

The opinion had also prevailed, by this time, that Otus should replace Scops as the genus name (though it is also currently recognized in Megascops).

Endemic species like the Puerto Rican Screech Owl (Megascops nudipes) regularly inhabit this vegetation association .

Its distinct coloration, approximated in the Southern Whiskered Screech Owl (Megascops trichopsis mesamericanus), is thus likely the result of strong genetic drift.

George Robert Gray was the first author to validly use Lichtenstein's name, combining it as entry 493 in the genus Scops of his own list (S. (Megascops) argentinus).

Ezylryb, Whiskered Screech Owl, Megascops trichopsis, the wise weather-interpretation ryb at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree; Soren's mentor.

The White-throated Screech Owl (Megascops albogularis) is an owl found in Andes in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

The Whiskered Screech Owl or Whiskered Screech Owl (Megascops trichopsis), is a small scops owl found in North and Central America.

For most of the 20th century, this genus included the American screech owls which are now again separated in Megascops based on a range of behavioral, biogeographical, morphological and DNA sequence data.

The Eastern Screech Owl or Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio) is a small owl that is relatively common in Eastern North America, from Mexico to Canada.

Note that there is no reliable estimate of divergence time, as Otus and Megascops are osteologically very similar, as is to be expected from a group that has apparently conserved its ecomorphology since before its evolutionary radiation.

The Western Screech Owl (Megascops kennicottii) is a small owl native to North and Central America, closely related to the European Scops owl and the North American Eastern Screech Owl.

The Puerto Rican Screech Owl (Megascops nudipes) or Múcaro (Spanish via Taino) is a nocturnal endemic owl of the archipelago of Puerto Rico belonging to the Megascops genus of the Strigidae family.