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Birds of the World: Recommended English Names is a paperback book written by Frank Gill and Minturn Wright on behalf of the International Ornithologists' Union.The book is an attempt to produce a standardized set of English names for all bird species and is the product of a project set in motion at the 1990 International Ornithological Congress.
An owl appeared to Glory of the Morning, the only female chief of the Hočąk nation, and uttered her name. Soon after, she died. [73] [74] According to the culture of the Hopi, a Uto-Aztec tribe, taboos surround owls, which are associated with sorcery and other evils. [citation needed]
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
Common name Binomial name + authority IOC sequence Greater sooty owl: Tyto tenebricosa (Gould, 1845) 1 Lesser sooty owl: Tyto multipunctata Mathews, 1912: 2 Minahasa masked owl: Tyto inexspectata (Schlegel, 1879) 3 Taliabu masked owl: Tyto nigrobrunnea Neumann, 1939: 4 Moluccan masked owl: Tyto sororcula (Sclater, PL, 1883) 5 Manus masked owl
An evil magical owl, who took over the farm, caused the storm, and humiliate Chanticleer Golden Eagle Golden eagle: The Boy Who Saw The Wind: Gold Nugget Snowy owl Wild Kratts: A snowy owl who first appears in the episode Snowy Owl Invasion. He is named after his golden eyes. Gorgo Eagle The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
New Caledonian barn owl Tyto letocarti, extinct, from the island of New Caledonia in Melanesia Index of animals with the same common name This page is an index of articles on animal species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
An owl is any one of some 200+ species of solitary, mostly nocturnal predatory birds.They are classified as order Strigiformes.Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish.
The Eurasian scops owl is now placed in the genus Aegolius that was introduced in 1829 by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup with the boreal owl as the type species. [6] [7] The genus name is Latin for a screech owl, the word came from the Ancient Greek aigōlios meaning "a bird of ill omen".