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The Puerto Rican owl is 20 to 25 cm (7.9 to 9.8 in) long with a wing length of 154 to 171 mm (6.1 to 6.7 in). It weighs 100 to 170 g (3.5 to 6.0 oz), with females being slightly heavier than males.
The Bird that Spoke the Truth (Spanish: El pájaro que contaba verdades) is a New Mexican folktale. It is related to the motif of the calumniated wife and classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children".
The novel was translated into English by Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1973, with about twenty pages cut. This edition was reprinted by David R. Godine, Publisher in 1979. [2]
The Cu bird (Spanish: pájaro cu or cú) is a bird from a Mexican folktale that is unhappy with its looks. According to the legend, the other birds agreed to the barn owl's proposal to give the Cu bird one feather each and in return asked it to become the messenger of the bird council.
Lechuza (Spanish "barn owl") may refer to: La Lechuza, barn owl in Mexican and Texano folk tales El Lechuza, a village in Juan Martín de Pueyrredón Department , Argentina
Lechuza (Spanish "barn owl") is the second studio album by American pop punk band Fenix TX, released on May 22, 2001, by MCA and Drive-Thru Records. Between June and August, the group performed on the Warped Tour. [2] The first song, "Phoebe Cates", is a first-person tale of falling in lust with actress Phoebe Cates.
Let's Go is a series of American-English based EFL (English as a foreign language) textbooks developed by Oxford University Press and first released in 1990. While having its origins in ESL teaching in the US, and then as an early EFL resource in Japan, [1] the series is currently in general use for English-language learners in over 160 countries around the world. [2]
The word entered English through Spanish. The quetzal plays a central role in Mesoamerican mythology and is associated with the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl . The word quetzal was originally used for just the resplendent quetzal , the long-tailed quetzal of Guatemala , (more specifically the area of Northern Guatemala known as the Petén) which is ...