Ryūkyū Scops-owl

Ryūkyū Scops-owl

Taxobox
name = Ryukyu Scops Owl
status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Strigiformes
familia = Strigidae
genus = "Otus"
species = "O. elegans"
binomial = "Otus elegans"
binomial_authority = (Cassin, 1852)

The Ryukyu Scops Owl or Elegant Scops Owl ("Otus elegans") is a small rufous-brown owl with a brown face disk and a cinnamon facial ruff. The bill is olive-grey and it has yellow eyes. It is found on the Nansei Shoto islands, southern Japan, on Lanyu Island, off south-east Taiwan, and on the Batanes and Babuyan islands off northern Luzon, Philippines in semi-tropical evergreen forest.

References

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=2177&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet - Elegant Scops-owl]
* [http://www.birdingintaiwan.com/lanyuscopsowl.htm Birding in Taiwan]


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