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"A mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus)."
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"taxonomic": "Megascops asio",
"word": "eastern screech owl"
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"taxonomic": "Megascops kennicottii",
"word": "western screech owl"
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"taxonomic": "Megascops seductus",
"word": "Balsas screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops cooperi",
"word": "Pacific screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops trichopsis",
"word": "whiskered screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops choliba",
"word": "tropical screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops roboratus",
"word": "West Peruvian screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops koepckeae",
"word": "Koepcke's screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops clarkii",
"word": "bare-shanked screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops barbarus",
"word": "bearded screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops ingens",
"word": "rufescent screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops petersoni",
"word": "cinnamon screech owl"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Megascops marshalli",
"word": "cloud-forest screech owl"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Megascops watsonii",
"word": "tawny-bellied screech owl"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Megascops guatemalae",
"word": "Middle American screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops vermiculatus",
"word": "vermiculated screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops roraimae",
"word": "foothill screech owl"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Megascops centralis",
"word": "Chocó screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops hoyi",
"word": "Yungas screech owl"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops atricapilla",
"word": "black-capped screech owl"
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"taxonomic": "Megascops sanctaecatarinae",
"word": "long-tufted screech owl"
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"sense": "Puerto Rican screech owl (Megascops nudipes)",
"taxonomic": "Megascops nudipes newtoni",
"word": "†Virgin Islands screech owl"
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"taxonomic": "Megascops albogularis",
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{
"taxonomic": "Megascops gilesi",
"word": "Santa Marta screech owl"
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"ref": "1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 102:",
"text": "The screech owls winter in the north and are distinctly farsighted in preparing for winter.",
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"ref": "1921, Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Blue-Flag in the Bog”, in Second April:",
"text": "And I listened for a voice;— / But my heart was all I heard; / Not a screech-owl, not a loon, / Not a tree-toad said a word.",
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"sense": "Megascops",
"word": "鳴角鴞"
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"sense": "Megascops",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "Megascops",
"word": "kirkupöllönen"
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"word": "petit-duc maculé"
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"word": "Kreischeule"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "Megascops",
"word": "lármáskuvik"
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"word": "ulscréachóg"
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"sense": "Megascops",
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"word": "gaakaabishiinh"
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"sense": "Megascops",
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"word": "syczoń"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "Megascops",
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"feminine"
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"word": "corujinha"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "Megascops",
"word": "совка"
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "Megascops",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "Megascops",
"word": "autillo"
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"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "Megascops",
"word": "mtiti"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "Megascops",
"word": "cú mèo"
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