African Wood-Owl (Strix woodfordii)

Other Names (World)
African Wood-Owl, Woodford's Owl, African Wood Owl

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
36 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Smith, 1834)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna, plantations. From sea-level - 3,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (168)...)

African Wood Owl (Strix woodfordii) [XC154756]
by Martin St-Michel from Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya (song)

African Wood Owl (Strix woodfordii) [XC834143]
by Marc Anderson from Kafue National Park, Zambia (song)

Subspecies
Birds from Sokoke Forest in Kenya sometimes separated as subspecies sokokensis; populations described from Central African Republic to Sudan and southern Zaire (as bohndorffi) considered not separable from other subspecies.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

nuchalis (Sharpe, 1870) - Senegambia east to southern Sudan and Uganda, south to northern Angola and Zaire (except southern and east), including Bioko I.
umbrina (Heuglin, 1863) - Ethiopia and south-eastern Sudan.
nigricantior (Sharpe, 1897) - Southern Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and eastern Zaire.
woodfordii (Smith, 1834) - Southern Angola and southern Zaire east to south-western Tanzania, south to northern Botswana and the Cape.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for African Wood-Owl (Strix woodfordii) - 10 files

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