morepork
(chiefly, New Zealand) The (), a small brown owl indigenous to New Zealand and Tasmania.
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(chiefly, New Zealand) The (), a small brown owl indigenous to New Zealand and Tasmania.
[T]he eye of the Morepork or Greater Night Jarr, which I lately had the opportunity of examining, is wonderfully adapted for enabling it to see the insects in the dark, on which it feeds.
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