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scop

(shōp, shŏp)
n.
An Old English poet or bard.

[Old English.]
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scop

(skɒp)
n
(Music, other) (in Anglo-Saxon England) a bard or minstrel
[Old English: related to Old Norse skop, skaup, Old High German scof, scopf poem]
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At an early period also professional minstrels, called by the Anglo-Saxons scops or gleemen, disengaged themselves from the crowd and began to gain their living by wandering from village to village or tribe to tribe chanting to the harp either the popular ballads or more formal poetry of their own composition.
WATCH: An endemic juvenile Philippine Scops Owl was rescued in DLSU - Dasmarinas campus on Wednesday.
A Gaussian trend, with higher values in the central retinal fields (T3/N3) and lower values to the peripheral fields (T1/N1) is evidenced in the retina of the scops owl.
Out of 20 owl species occurring in Pakistan, four species were already known from Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP), viz., Himalayan Barred owlet (Glaucidium cuculoides), Oriental Scops owl (Otus sunia), Pallid Scops owl (Otus brucei) and Tawny owl (Strix aluco) (Robrets, 1991).
Lesley Stubbings of SCOPS said: "We have been advising farmers to leave 10-20% of their ewes untreated, but now we can confidently tell them they only need to treat ewes that are below ideal condition, or immature shearlings and ewe lambs."
Key words: Japanese scops owl, Ural owl, rodent, foraging, prey selection
"The Cyprus scops owl is an endemic protected subspecies.
"Scops recommend using a white (1-BZ) drench for lambs that are at risk as it is highly e'ective against the disease."
Charles Sercombe, NFU representative on SCOPS and also a sheep farmer, acknowledged that implementing an effective quarantine policy took time and cost money.
Vince Schiavone, AKUDA LABS' Co-Founder and CEO, kicked off the summit with a showcase of the advanced platform, revealing its industry-leading processing capabilities of 500 million SCOPS, providing the fastest big data processing the industry has ever seen.
"People get to handle the birds, especially the little scops owl, and they enjoy getting up close and personal.
Veterinarian Alan Humphreys said: "I recognised it as a Scops owl.