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[HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
22/05/2024 02:16:57 AM
Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
White-faced Scops-Owl*
Id (Atlas):
Ptilopsis leucotis
Description (10 )
White-faced Scops-Owl
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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.
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte 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)... )
Listen to XC714702
Northern White-faced Owl (Ptilopsis leucotis ) [XC714702 ]
by Phil Gregory from Mole Airstrip, Ghana (call)
Listen to XC508309
Northern White-faced Owl (Ptilopsis leucotis ) [XC508309 ]
by Joost van Bruggen from Almadies, Ngor, Dakar, Senegal (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:
BirdLife International
For more information about the White-faced Scops-Owl see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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