Jump to content

Wallace's scops owl

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Tom.Reding (talk | contribs) at 23:42, 7 November 2016 (→‎top: Fix Category:CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter: vauthors/veditors or enumerate multiple authors/editors/assessors; WP:GenFixes on, enum'd 1 author/editor WL, using AWB). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Wallace's scops owl
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Species:
O. silvicola
Binomial name
Otus silvicola
(Wallace, 1864)

The Wallace's scops owl (Otus silvicola) lives on a few remote islands. 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.[2]

References

  1. ^ Template:IUCN
  2. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 357–358.