African Wood Owl (Strix woodfordii) [XC519859]
by Frank Lambert from Ebb & Flo area, Wilderness National Park, South Cape DC, Western Cape, South Africa (call, song, at least 4 birds present)
African Wood Owl (Strix woodfordii) [XC156619]
by Martin St-Michel from Mabira Forest Reserve (The Rain Forest Lodge), Buikwe district, Uganda (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.