scops owl

See also: scops-owl

English

Alternative forms

• scops-owl

Etymology

From Latin scops, from Ancient Greek σκώψ (skṓps, “a type of small owl”), from σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai, “I look at”).

Noun

scops owl (plural scops owls)

1. A small European migratory owl, Otus scops, that winters in sub-Saharran Africa.
2. Any owl of the Old World genus Otus.

Synonyms

• (Otus scops): European scops owl, Eurasian scops owl, Old World scops owl

Derived terms

• African scops owl (Otus senegalensis)
• collared scops owl (Otus lettia)
• Cyprus scops owl
• Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops)
• European scops owl (Otus scops)
• Flores scops owl
• giant scops owl (Otus gurneyi)
• Indian scops owl (Otus bakkamoena)
• Japanese scops owl
• Javan scops owl
• Karthala scops owl
• Luzon scops owl
• Madagascar scops owl (Otus rutilus)
• Madeiran scops owl
• Malagasy scops owl (Otus rutilus)
• Mauritius scops owl
• Mayotte scops owl
• Mentawai scops owl
• Mindanao scops owl
• Mindoro scops owl
• Moheli scops owl
• Moluccan scops owl
• mountain scops owl (Otus spilocephalus)
• Negros scops owl
• Nicobar scops owl
• Old World scops owl (Otus scops)
• Oriental scops owl (Otus sunia)
• Palau scops owl
• Palawan scops owl
• pallid scops owl (Otus brucei)
• Pemba scops owl
• Pernambuco scops owl
• Philippine scops owl
• rainforest scops owl (Otus rutilus)
• Rinjani scops owl
• Serendib scops owl (Otus thilohoffmanni)
• Seychelles scops owl
• Siau scops owl
• Simeulue scops owl
• spotted scops owl (Otus spilocephalus)
• striated scops owl (Otus brucei)
• Sunda scops owl
• white-fronted scops owl (Otus sagittatus)

Translations

Otus scops

• Albanian: gjon (sq) m, lorëz (sq) f, qok (sq) m
• Asturian: curuxín (ast), curuxina (ast)
• Basque: apo-hontz
• Breton: toud korr m
• Bulgarian: чухал m (čuhal)
• Catalan: xot (ca) m, xut (ca) m, mussol (ca) m
• Czech: výreček malý m
• Danish: dværghornugle c
• Faroese: lítil kattúla m
• Finnish: kyläpöllönen (fi)
• French: petit-duc (fr) m
• German: Zwergohreule (de) f
• Greek: γκιόνης (el) m (gkiónis)
• Hungarian: füleskuvik
• Irish: ulchabhán scopach m
• Italian: assiolo (it) m, assiuolo m
• Navajo: tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ tsidiłdǫǫhii
• Polish: syczek (pl) m, syczek zwyczajny m
• Portuguese: mocho-de-orelhas m
• Romanian: ciuș (ro) m, ciuf pitic m
• Romansch: piv nanin m
• Russian: сплю́шка (ru) f (spljúška), обыкнове́нная со́вка f (obyknovénnaja sóvka)
• Spanish: autillo (es) m
• Swedish: dvärguv (sv) c
• Turkish: İshak kuşu (tr)

any bird of the genus Otus

• Czech: výreček m
• Finnish: pöllönen (fi)
• Polish: syczek (pl) m

References

• “scops owl”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Eurasian scops owl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia