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Alternative name: Elegant Scops Owl
- Otus elegans
Identification
- Rufous brown
- Brown facial disk
- White lores
- White line above eye
- Cinnamon facial ruff with dark brown border
- Rufous ear tufts with black spots
- Red brown below with buff and dark brown mottling
- Dark cinnamon throat and breast with dark brown streaks and white and brown mottling
- Yellow iris
- Olive grey bill
- Grey brown feet
Distribution
Asia: found in Japan, Taiwan
Southeast Asia: Philippines, Luçon.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 4 subspecies[1]:
- O. e. elegans:
- Ryukyu Islands (southern Japan)
- O. e. interpositus:
- Daito Islands (southern Japanese Archipelago)
- O. e. botelensis:
- Lan-yü Island (off south-eastern Taiwan)
- O. e. calayensis:
- Philippines: islands in the Batan and Babuyan island groups, including Itbayat, Batan, Sabtang, Calayan, Camiguin Norte, and perhaps others
Habitat
Semi tropical evergreen forest edges to 550m and farmland.
Behaviour
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Lepage D. (2020) Avibase Retrieved 30 August 2020
- Birding in Taiwan
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Ryukyu Scops Owl. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Ryukyu_Scops_Owl
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
