Subject: Saw-whet Owl's name
Date: Aug 5 14:11:12 2002
From: ian paulsen - ipaulsen at krl.org


HI ALL again:
Someone mentioned to me reading an article about the origin of the name
Saw-whet for the Owl. I books I've read state that it because it is for
their song that resembles a saw being whetted. But this person told me of
an article saying it could have came from the French? for small owl. has
anyone heard of this before??

Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
ipaulsen at krl.org
A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
"Rallidae all the way"