Wallace's scops owl
| Wallace's scops owl | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Strigiformes |
| Family: | Strigidae |
| Genus: | Otus |
| Species: | O. silvicola
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| Otus silvicola (Wallace, 1864)
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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
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 357–358.
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