Brown Wood-Owl (Strix leptogrammica)

Other Names (World)
Brown Wood-Owl, Himalayan Brown Owl (newarensis group), Himalayan Brown Wood-owl (newarensis group), Bartels's Wood-owl (bartelsi), Malaysian Wood-owl (maingayi), Brown Wood Owl

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
40 - 53 cm

First Described (Guide)
Temminck, 1831

Habitat
Subtropical montane broadleaf forest, prefering undistured areas.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh (B), Bhutan (B), Brunei Darussalam (B), Cambodia (B), China (mainland) (B), India (B), Indonesia (B), Laos (B), Malaysia (B), Myanmar (B), Nepal (B), Sri Lanka (B), Taiwan (China) (B), Thailand (B), Vietnam (B).

South Asia to Indonesia, South East China, Taiwan.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Secretive.

Voice
Eerie screams, a short series of abrupt barking hoots, similar to that of Ural Owl (Strix uralensis), but more explosive at close range. Also a deep 'goke-goke-goke-ga-looo'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (109)...)

Brown Wood Owl (Strix leptogrammica) [XC637201]
by Sunny Tseng from Lalashan, Taiwan (song)

Brown Wood Owl (Strix leptogrammica) [XC453714]
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Subspecies
Sri Lankan ochrogenys sometimes considered synonymous with indranee; chaseni possibly synonymous with nominate; myrtha and nyctiphasma doubtfully distinct from maingayi.

Additional subspecies described are connectens (single specimen from central India), included in indranee, and orientalis and shahensis, both treated as synonyms of ticehursti.

The following 14 subspecies are recognised:

newarensis (Hodgson, 1836) - Himalayas, from Jammu and Kashmir east to north-eastern India. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Himalayan Wood-Owl (Strix newarensis).
ticehursti Delacour, 1930 - Northern and central Myanmar east to south-eastern China (north-east to Anhui), south to northern and western Thailand, northern Laos and northern Vietnam.
caligata (Swinhoe, 1863) - Hainan and Taiwan.
laotiana Delacour, 1926 - Southern Laos and central Vietnam (Annam).
indranee Sykes, 1832 - Peninsular India.
ochrogenys (Hume, 1873) - Sri Lanka.
maingayi (Hume, 1878) - Southern Myanmar, southern Thailand and Malay Peninsula.
myrtha (Bonaparte, 1850) - Sumatra. Also reported from Mentawai Is (possibly this race).
nyctiphasma Oberholser, 1924 - Banyak Is, off western Sumatra.
niasensis (Salvadori, 1887) - Nias I, off western Sumatra.
chaseni Hoogerwerf & de Boer, 1947 - Belitung I, off south-eastern Sumatra.
vaga Mayr, 1938 - Northern Borneo.
leptogrammica Temminck, 1831 - Central and southern Borneo.
bartelsi (Finsch, 1906) - Java. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Bartels' Wood-Owl (Strix bartelsi).

References
See References.

Files:

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