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Mountain Scops-Owl
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Mountain Scops-Owl

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Mountain Scops-Owl

Otus spilocephalus

The mountain scops owl (Otus spilocephalus), sometimes referred to as the spotted scops owl, is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. Its range extends across much of south and southeast Asia, from Pakistan and the Himalayas in the northwest, through Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia in the east and south.

The nominate subspecies of the eastern Himalayas has a distinct more russet plumage.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 20264.