Spectacled Owl

Spectacled Owl

Taxobox
name = Spectacled Owl
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Strigiformes
familia = Strigidae
genus = "Pulsatrix"
species = "P. perspicillata"
binomial = "Pulsatrix perspicillata"
binomial_authority = (Latham, 1790)

The Spectacled Owl, "Pulsatrix perspicillata," is a large tropical owl. It is a resident breeder from southern Mexico and Trinidad south to southern Brazil, Paraguay and northwestern Argentina. There are six subspecies.

This is a nocturnal species of mature forests. It nests in an unlined tree cavity, laying two white eggs. It preys on mammals and large insects, and will also take birds, including smaller owls.

The Spectacled Owl is 46 cm long and weighs 850 g. It is unmistakable with brown upperparts, head and upper breast, white facial markings and buff underparts. The eyes are yellow and the bill is pale. The juvenile is even more distinctive than the adult, being completely white apart from a chocolate brown facial disc.

The call is a deep hooting "BOO Boo boo boo boo" becoming softer and faster.

This owl is featured in a picture with a Hooters girl in the January 2008 edition of their calendar.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* "A guide to the birds of Costa Rica" by Stiles and Skutch ISBN 0-8014-9600-4
* "Birds of Venezuela" by Hilty, ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
*cite book
last = ffrench
first = Richard
title = A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
edition = 2nd edition
year = 1991
publisher = Comstock Publishing
isbn = 0-8014-9792-2

External links

* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/7811500.htm Stamps] (for Belize, Honduras, Paraguay, and Suriname); [http://www.bird-stamps.org/recent/hondur/ext1d.htm Stamp-photo]
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=spectacled+owl&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Spectacled Owl photo gallery] VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Pulsatrix+perspicillata Photo-High Res]
* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=2674 Spectacled Owl videos] on the Internet Bird Collection


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