Noun
owl
A carnivorous bird, similar to a falcon, and primarily nocturnal, though the degree of day activity varies highly among various members of the species. Has forward-looking, binocular vision, but limited eye movement. This is compensated for by a high degree of head rotation (270 degrees) and extremely powerful hearing. Size ranges from that of North America's Great Horned Owl, with a wingspan of 4 1/2 feet, to America's Elf Owl, at 3 3/4 inches in total length.
Translations
- Albanian: buforët
- Basque: mozo, hontz, gauhontz, hontza
- Belarussian: сава
- Breton: toud, kaouenn
- Bulgarian: кукумявка (kukumjavka)
- Catalan: rapinyaire nocturn
- Croatian: sova
- Czech: sova
- Danish: ugle
- Dutch: uil m
- Esperanto: strigo
- Estonian: öökull
- Faroese: ugla
- Finnish: pöllö
- French: hibou m, chouette f
- Frisian: ûle
- Friulian: çus
- Gallegan: moucho m
- German: Eule f
- Greek: κουκουβάγια
- Hungarian: bagoly
- Icelandic: ugla
- Indonesian: burung hantu
- Irish: ulchabhán
- Italian: strige (?)
- Japanese: 梟 (フクロウ, fukurō)
- Ladin: ciuita
- Latin: Strigiformes, Bubo virginianus, Aeogolivus acadicus, Strix occidental
- Latvian: pūce
- Lithuanian: pelėdos
- Lower Sorbian: sowa
- Macedonian: був (buv)
- Maltese: kokka
- Norwegian: ugle
- Occitan: chòta
- Polish: sowa
- Portuguese: coruja, mocho
- Romanian: bufniţă
- Romansh: tschuetta
- Russian: совы (sovy)
- Sami: skuolfelottit
- Sardinian: tirulia, cuccumeu, (i-)stria
- Scottish: cailleach-oidhche
- Serbian: сова (sova)
- Slovak: sova
- Slovenian: sova
- Spanish: búho m, lechuza f
- Swedish: uggla
- Turkish: baykuş
- Ukrainian: сова (sova)
- Upper Sorbian: sowa
- Welsh: tylluan
