Black-banded Owl (Strix huhula) [XC857914]
by Andr\u00e1s Schmidt from Caba\u00f1as San Isidro, Cosanga, Quijos, Napo, Ecuador (call)
Black-banded Owl (Strix huhula) [XC521260]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Caba\u00f1as San Isidro, Cosanga, Napo, Ecuador (call)
Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Black-and-white Owl (Ciccaba nigrolineata), and sometimes treated as conspecific.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
huhula (Daudin, 1800) - Eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela and the Guianas to north-eastern Brazil, south to eastern Peru, north-western Argentina, northern Paraguay and eastern Brazil.
albomarginata (von Spix, 1824) - South-eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones).