Alternative name: Luzon Slender-billed Scops Owl
- Otus longicornis
Identification
19 cm.
- Frosted facial trim
- White eyebrows
- Barred white long loral plumes with black tips
- Long ear-tufts with rufous colouring
- White, blackish-brown and rufous barred ear-coverts
- White or pale collar, broader on breast than on hindneck
- Bright rufous-buff upperparts, streaked and with irregular dark bars
- Whitish chin and throat, black tipped throat feathers
- Rufous breast, mottled black and white
- White rest of underparts with fulvous and rusty-brown mottling
- Tarsus feathered for about half length
- Yellow eyes
Sexes similar, juveniles undescribed.
Distribution
Endemic to Luzon in the northern Philippines.
A rare restricted-range species. Only few sightings. Habitat loss still continues.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Formerly regarded as subspecies of Eurasian Scops Owl or Mountain Scops Owl. Forms probably a superspecies with Mindanao Scops Owl.
Habitat
Wet forest in foothills and mountains.
Recent observations at 700 - 1500m.
Behaviour
Diet
Diet includes insects.
Breeding
One nest recorded in a tree hole in May. It contained three chicks.
Movements
Presumably a resident species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and J Sargatal, eds. 1999. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 5: Barn-Owls to Hummingbirds. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334252
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Luzon Scops Owl. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Luzon_Scops_Owl
