Otus
Scops Owls
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Fuchs, J., J.-M. Pons, S. M. Goodmanl, V. Bretagnolle, M. Melo, R. C. K. Bowie, D. Currie, R. Safford, M. Z. Virani, S. Thomsett, A. Hija, C. Cruaud, and E. Pasquet. 2008. Tracing the colonization history of the Indian Ocean scops-owls (Strigiformes: Otus) with further insight into the spatio-temporal origin of the Malagasy avifauna. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:197 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-197.
König, C., Weick, F., and Becking, J-H. 1999. Owls: a guide to the owls of the world. Yale University Press.
Rasmussen, P.C. and Anderton, J.C. 2005. Birds of South Asia: the Ripley Guide. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.
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Scientific Name | Otus senegalensis |
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Location | Africa |
Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
Source | African Scops Owl - (Otus senegalensis) |
Source Collection | Flickr |
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Copyright | © 2007 Arno Meintjes |
Scientific Name | Otus lettia |
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Location | Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong |
Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
Life Cycle Stage | juvenile |
Source | Looking Back |
Source Collection | Flickr |
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Copyright | © 2003 Charles Lam |
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Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, USA
David P. Mindell
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA
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- First online 04 June 2007
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