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Definition of Screech hawk

Screech hawk
Screech Screech, n. A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream. Screech bird, or Screech thrush (Zo["o]l.), the fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain. Screech rain. Screech hawk (Zo["o]l.), the European goatsucker; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.] Screech owl. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small American owl (Scops asio), either gray or reddish in color. (b) The European barn owl. The name is applied also to other species.

Meaning of Screech hawk from wikipedia

- The eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) or eastern screech-owl, is a small owl that is relatively common in Eastern North America, from Mexico to Canada...
- Screech owls are typical owls (Strigidae) belonging to the genus Megascops with 22 living species. For most of the 20th century, this genus was merged...
- northern hawk-owl. The genus name is of unknown etymology and may simply have been invented by Duméril. The specific epithet ulula is Latin for a "screech owl"...
- Cooper's hawk eats a flammulated screech owl. Condor, 39, 44. Gehlbach, F. R., N. Y. Gehlbach, P. Pyle, and M. A. Patten (2017). Whiskered Screech-Owl (Megascops...
- owl, Strix occidentalis Eastern screech-owl, Megascops asio Western screech-owl, Megascops kennicottii Whiskered screech-owl, Megascops trichopsis Flammulated...
- animals such as eastern screech owls and flying squirrels and road-killed deer. The breeding habitats of the red-shouldered hawk are deciduous and mixed...
- The zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus) is a medium-sized hawk of warm, dry parts of the Americas. It is somewhat similar in plumage and flight style...
- bittern”), possibly from the onomatopoeic Proto-Indo-European root *gū- , "screech." Some authors use the terms "hovering kite" and "soaring kite" to distinguish...
- often first detected by the long drawn out screech given by birds perched in the canopy. The long-tailed hawk occurs in the tropical rainforests of western...
- Papuan hawk-owl Genus Ninox – Australasian hawk-owls, 37 species of which one is recently extinct Genus Margarobyas – bare-legged owl or Cuban screech-owl...