Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ornithology, having short plumicorns: as, the short-eared owl, Asio accipitrinus, formerly
Strix brachyotus or Brachyotus palustris.
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- adjective having short ears
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Examples
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Not just because it was a short-eared owl – the first I had seen in my new home county – but because most birds had already fled the cold weather, and the fields behind my home were devoid of life.
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For there are few other species I would enjoy seeing more regularly than the short-eared owl.
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A short-eared owl roosts on a wooden fencepost, craning its head at impossible angles to pick up the soft sounds of field mice in the dense marsh grass.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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A short-eared owl roosts on a wooden fencepost, craning its head at impossible angles to pick up the soft sounds of field mice in the dense marsh grass.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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And one spring, when I was walking through Cambridge, another short-eared owl flew overhead against the blue May sky.
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When I was growing up, I would regularly see short-eared owls in winter: on the north Kent marshes, in East Anglia, and once even on my local patch – Wraysbury Gravel Pits, just west of Heathrow.
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Owls there were, and nightingales, and squirrels and rabbits and short-eared lutra, all cut from juniper, aeterna, and other greenery.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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I put out trap-lines for small animals, and caught things that are like short-eared rabbits that live among the rocks, and built up our campsite into a small stone hut walled over with snow blocks - I had no idea how long we would be there, and I wanted to be ready for the worst blizzards.
Elephant in the City 2010
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Birds of prey such as snowy owls, short-eared owls (Asio flammeus), jaegers (skuas – Stercorarius spp.), and rough-legged buzzards (Buteo lagopus) are lemming and vole specialists that are only able to breed at peak lemming densities and which aggregate in areas with high lemming densities.
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Some of these fearless, endemic predators are the Galapagos hawk (Buteo galapagoenis), the subspecies Galapagos barn owl (Tyto punctissima) and short-eared owl (Asio flammeus).
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