Oriental Bay Owl

Oriental Bay Owl
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Strigiformes
Family:	Tytonidae
Genus:	Phodilus
Species:	P. badius
Binomial name
Phodilus badius (Horsfield, 1821)
Subspecies
P. b. badius (Southeast Asian Bay Owl) P. b. saturatus (Sikkim Bay Owl) P. b. ripleyi (Peninsular Bay Owl) P. b. assimilis (Ceylon Bay Owl) P. b. arixuthus (Natuna Bay Owl) P. b. parvus (Belitung Bay Owl)

The Oriental Bay Owl (Phodilus badius) is a type of owl, usually classified with barn owls. It is completely nocturnal, and can be found throughout Southeast Asia. It has several subspecies. It has a heart-shaped face with earlike extensions. The Congo Bay Owl (Phodilus prigoginei) was formerly classified as a subspecies of Oriental Bay Owl due to insufficient knowledge, but it has turned out that it might not even belong to the same genus.

A population of this species has apparently become extinct on Samar Island in the Philippines during the 20th century. It was described as Phodilus badius riverae and was only ever known from a single specimen, which was lost in a bombing raid in 1945. The validity of this taxon is uncertain; it is usually synonymized with the nominate subspecies (for reasons of biogeography) or the subspecies saturatus (from external appearance); it might be a distinct species, however

The subspecies ripleyi is found in southern India while assimilis is found in the highlands of Sri Lanka.

Oriental bay owl from Western Ghats

References

• BirdLife International (2004). Phodilus badius. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

• Bruce, M. D. (1999): 15. Oriental Bay-owl. In: del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (eds): Handbook of Birds of the World, Volume 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds: 75, plate 3. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-25-3

External links

• ARKive - images and movies of the Oriental bay owl (Phodilus badius)

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