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[[Image:White-throated_Screech_Owl.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by steveblain<br />Photo taken: Yanacocha reserve, Ecuador (just outside Quito)]] | [[Image:White-throated_Screech_Owl.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by steveblain<br />Photo taken: Yanacocha reserve, Ecuador (just outside Quito)]] | ||
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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
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| + | [[Colombia]] and [[Venezuela]] to [[Ecuador]], [[Peru]], and [[Bolivia]]. | ||
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| + | Six subspecies are known. | ||
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| + | This and almost all Screech Owls in the Americas have previously been considered to belong in the same genus (''Otus'') as the European and Asian Scops-Owls, but a reassignment to ''Megascops'' have been accepted by among other authorities, the American Ornithologists' Union. | ||
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
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Revision as of 16:59, 27 October 2007
- Megascops albogularis
Identification
Distribution
Colombia and Venezuela to Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Taxonomy
Six subspecies are known.
This and almost all Screech Owls in the Americas have previously been considered to belong in the same genus (Otus) as the European and Asian Scops-Owls, but a reassignment to Megascops have been accepted by among other authorities, the American Ornithologists' Union.
