How to Use screech owl in a Sentence

screech owl

noun
  • Barn owls, screech owls, and barred owls are among those that will.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Barn owls, screech owls, and barred owls are among those that will.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
  • And the screech owl’s song is described as either a trill or whiny.
    — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2018
  • For the larger screech owls, the Woodlink screech owl box is a great option.
    — Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The cemetery is also home to barn owls, great horn owls, and eastern screech owls.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2024
  • The last is the Eastern screech owl, which is a much smaller bird, short and stocky.
    — Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Eastern screech owls are always a favorite.
    — Joe Murphy, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • This also will become the home for the screech owls, barn owls and burrowing owls.
    — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Grandma liked sitting outside with the sun on her face, and listening to screech owls at night.
    — Hazlitt, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The one that's easiest to attract is the screech owl, says Bancroft.
    — Leah Zerbe, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2015
  • Get a glimpse of the falconry program and meet Owlivia, the resort’s screech owl.
    — Lea Lane, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The eastern screech owl was the most common owl in the state, according to Roberts’ work.
    — John Myers, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
  • Eastern screech owl nesting boxes.
    — Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Experience the sights and sounds of eastern screech owls, raccoons, night time spiders and much more.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Occasionally, Navar says, the center will see a kestrel or screech owl.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
  • Both the barn owl and the center’s 14-year-old eastern screech owl were rescued as young animals.
    — Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Jan. 2026
  • These programs allow visitors, many of them young children, to get exposure to nature and wildlife like the screech owl.
    — Kate Magill, Laurel Leader, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Small owls like screech owls often sleep in tree cavities or nest boxes, while barn owls live up to their name by seeking out barns and empty buildings.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Small owls like screech owls often sleep in tree cavities or nest boxes, while barn owls live up to their name by seeking out barns and empty buildings.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The final bird Gonzalez presented was a western screech owl.
    — Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The bird, an eastern screech owl, is nocturnal and typically nests in tree cavities.
    — ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But after an older screech owl dies, how does its surviving mate recognize, out of the smaller pool of potential mates, which birds are its age?
    — Laura Erickson, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2020
  • For the Eastern screech owl, the boxes should be placed on a live tree or a pole anywhere between 10 to 30 feet above the ground.
    — Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The secret world of owls When David Johnson was 11 years old, an eastern screech owl landed on the edge of his tent.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 22 June 2023
  • On the evening of June 9, a person out walking a dog in Wareham came across a young screech owl on the side of the road in Onset.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
  • Both expert hunters, the American kestrel uses its acrobatic prowess, while the eastern screech owl is a stealthy silent hunter.
    — Sara Ervin Walser, Laurel Leader, 28 June 2018
  • Both expert hunters, the American kestrel uses its acrobatic prowess, while the eastern screech owl is a stealthy silenthunter.
    — Sara Ervin Walser, Laurel Leader, 17 May 2018
  • Magle assigned the Eastern screech owl to the Bengals because it's found in Ohio and shares a similar color to the team.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Birdsong once echoed off canyon walls, and birdwatchers anticipated the nesting ritual of screech owls every summer.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The resort’s roster includes six Harris’s hawks, one peregrine falcon, one Eurasian eagle owl, one barn owl and an Eastern screech owl.
    — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022

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