Example Sentences

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This year, the Wildlife Center of Virginia posted on Facebook about an Eastern screech owl that flew into a glue trap.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2024

We have horned owls here that would happily eat a screech owl if they could.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2023

It won't take long to feel enamored of the newly adopted member of Carl Safina's family: a baby screech owl.

From Scientific American • Oct. 1, 2023

But Owl 17-1308 does, which is why Paula Goldberg brought the juvenile Eastern screech owl to Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg, Md., on Tuesday morning.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2017

It might have been a screech owl, but owls were nocturnal and therefore would not be out in the daytime.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood