Photo by miguelrouco
Manu National Park, Peru, July 2010
Genus: Strix
Description
Photo by Stanley Jones
Location: San Isidro Lodge, Ecuador, December 2007
Wood Owls which are distributed almost world-wide, except in Australia and other regions where it is replaced by genus Ninox.
Taxonomy
Strix is a genus in the family Strigidae.
Ciccaba vs. Strix
Most authorities (Sibley & Monroe, 1996) retain Mottled Owl (virgata), Black-and-white Owl (nigrolineata), Black-banded Owl (huhula), and Rufous-banded Owl (albitarsis) in the genus Strix. König et al. state that the general morphology and phylogenetic evidence of these four species does not indicate separation from the rest of Strix, and Restall goes on to explain that they were originally separated into the genus Ciccaba based on anatomy of the external ear. As Clements (2022) and IOC (2022) also place these species in Strix, the Opus follows.
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| S. virgata | Mottled Owl | ||
| S. nigrolineata | Black-and-white Owl | ||
| S. huhula | Black-banded Owl | ||
| S. albitarsis | Rufous-banded Owl | ||
| S. seloputo | Spotted Wood Owl | ||
| S. ocellata | Mottled Wood Owl | ||
| S. leptogrammica | Brown Wood Owl | ||
| S. aluco | Tawny Owl | ||
| S. mauritanica | Maghreb Owl | ||
| S. nivicolum | Himalayan Owl | ||
| S. hadorami | Desert Owl | ||
| S. butleri | Omani Owl | ||
| S. occidentalis | Spotted Owl | ||
| S. varia | Barred Owl | ||
| S. sartorii | Cinereous Owl | ||
| S. fulvescens | Fulvous Owl | ||
| S. hylophila | Rusty-barred Owl | ||
| S. rufipes | Rufous-legged Owl | ||
| S. chacoensis | Chaco Owl | ||
| S. uralensis | Ural Owl | ||
| S. nebulosa | Great Grey Owl | ||
| S. woodfordii | African Wood Owl | ||
Pages in category ‘Strix’
The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
