Wallace's scops owl

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Wallace's scops owl
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Otus
Species:
O. silvicola
Binomial name
Otus silvicola
(Wallace, 1864)

Wallace's scops owl (Otus silvicola) lives on Sumbawa and Flores islands, in the Lesser Sundas chain of Indonesia. It is not rare in most of its habitat and has no subspecies except for the nominate. It is also known as the Lesser Sunda scops owl.

It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and biologist.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Otus silvicola". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22688734A93207390. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22688734A93207390.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 357–358.