African Wood Owl (Strix woodfordii) [XC856028]
by The Late Jens Otto Svendsen and Louis A. Hansen from Kibale (near Bigodi), Kamwenge, Western Region, Uganda (call)
African Wood Owl (Strix woodfordii) [XC876202]
by Derek Solomon from Makhado Local Municipality (near Louis Trichardt), Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa (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.