screech-owl

A screech-owl rises up from a gnarled pine by the roadside.

The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010

Birds of prey include the western screech-owl, Cooper's hawk, northern pygmy-owl, and great gray owl.

Sierran Steppe - Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009

His voice, too, sounded like that of a screech-owl, as he said,

Redgauntlet 2008

“Peace, screech-owl!” answered Middlemas, “nor drive me to such madness as may lead me to forget thou art a woman.”

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

Here her leathern chops uttered a sort of cackling, ghastly laugh, resembling, to a certain degree, the cry of the screech-owl.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

Restricted-range birds in this ecoregion include the Santa Barbara screech-owl (Otus barbarus), belted flycatcher (Xenotriccus callizonus), pink-heade warbler (Ergaticus versicolor), and black-capped siskin (Carduelis atriceps) classified as near threatened.

Central American pine-oak forests 2007

Janet had never before heard her father excite or even permit her attention to anything which passed in their mysterious family; and now that he did so, his voice sounded in her ear — she knew not why — like that of a screech-owl denouncing some deed of terror and of woe.

Kenilworth 2004

What have my screech-owl voice, my hideous form, and my mis-shapen features, to do with the fairer workmanship of nature?

The Black Dwarf 2004

His laugh is said to have been quite horrible; and his screech-owl voice, shrill, uncouth, and dissonant, corresponded well with his other peculiarities.

The Black Dwarf 2004

The debauched misery, the wretched outdoor midnight revelry of the world was there, streaming in and out from gin-palaces, and bawling itself hoarse with horrid, discordant, screech-owl slang.

The Three Clerks 2004