laughing owl

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laughing owl (plural laughing owls)

  1. An owl (Sceloglaux albifacies) of New Zealand, now probably extinct, named for its cry.
    • 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 185:
      Other birds, such as the emblematically distinctive huia and the laughing owl, followed soon after.

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