White-faced Scops-Owl (Ptilopsis leucotis)

Other Names (World)
Northern White-faced Owl, White-faced Scops-Owl, White-faced Owl

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
26 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1820)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest and dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

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

Senegambia east to Somalia, south to northern Zaire, northern Uganda and central Kenya.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)...)

Northern White-faced Owl (Ptilopsis leucotis) [XC856887]
by julien Birard from Domaine de Petpenoun, Cameroon (song)

Northern White-faced Owl (Ptilopsis leucotis) [XC719468]
by Jaap van der Waarde from Mole National Park, Ghana (song)

Subspecies
Often treated as conspecific with Southern White-faced Owl (Ptilopsis granti) but significant differences in DNA and vocal patterns, however, indicate that northern and southern populations specifically distinct. Pale birds in Sudan and dark ones elsewhere have been treated as racially distinct (as margarethae and nigrovertex, respectively), but both considered merely color morphs.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-faced Scops-Owl (Ptilopsis leucotis) - 10 files

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