Wallace's scops owl
| Wallace's scops owl | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Strigiformes |
| Family: | Strigidae |
| Genus: | Otus |
| 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
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Otus silvicola". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ 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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