And the little owl kowc (koce) a cup (as a container), often figuratively, a lot (as if a potion); also some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup-like cavity of its eye) -- cup, (small) owl. and the cormorant shalak (shaw-lawk') bird of prey, usually thought to be the pelican (from casting itself into the sea) -- cormorant.and the great owl yanshuwph (yan-shoof') an unclean (acquatic) bird; probably the heron (perhaps from its blowing cry, or because the night-heron is meant