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At 08:13 PM 12/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Tweets,
>
>First, there's a book called Frontiers of Bird Identification, edited by Dr.
>J.T.R Sharrock, an anthology of lengthy, highly detailed ID articles
>published in British Birds during its ID glory days of the 1970's, which
>contains, as I remember, an exhaustive ID separation of flight characters of
>Long-eared Owl Asio otus (LEOW) and Short-eared Owl A. flammeus (SEOW).
>
If the Long-eared Owl is a LEOW and the Short-eared is a SEOW, then the
Middle-eared Owl must be a MEOW!

GH.