单词 | pels fishing owl |
释义 | Pel's fishing owln. A large fishing owl, Scotopelia peli, with rufous plumage, darker in the upperparts and paler, with slight streaks, in the underparts, found in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. ΚΠ 1899 Science 5 May 662/1 There had also been received an example of Pel's owl (Scotopelia peli).] 1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds West & Equatorial Afr. I. 548 (heading) Pell's fishing-owl... This fine owl is a large bird about 2 ft. in length with a considerable wing-spread. 1980 D. N. Johnson Proc. 4th Pan-Afr. Ornithol. Congr. 291 (title) A study of Pel's fishing owl Scotopelia peli Bonaparte 1850 in the ‘pan handle’ region of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. 1999 Independent 25 July 7 It was an eerie, spine-chilling scream that alerted us to our first sighting of a Pel's fishing-owl. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1953 |
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