Typical Owls (Strigidae)
Eastern Screech-owl (Otus asio) - HBW 5, p. 174
French: Petit-duc maculé
German: Ostkreischeule
Spanish: Autillo Yanqui
Other common names: Common Screech-owl
Taxonomy: Strix Asio Linnaeus, 1758, South Carolina.
Sometimes considered to form superspecies with O. kennicottii, O. seductus and O. cooperi. Formerly treated as conspecific with O. kennicottii, and may interbreed in areas of range overlap (separated by 60 km in Oklahoma “panhandle”, slightly sympatric in Colorado Springs, broadly overlapping inTexas, undetermined in Mexico), but vocal and DNA analyses indicate that treatment as separate species more appropriate. Often considered to include O. seductus and O. cooperi as races. Geographical limits of listed races require further study; naevius<.. View all taxonomy...
Sometimes considered to form superspecies with O. kennicottii, O. seductus and O. cooperi. Formerly treated as conspecific with O. kennicottii, and may interbreed in areas of range overlap (separated by 60 km in Oklahoma “panhandle”, slightly sympatric in Colorado Springs, broadly overlapping inTexas, undetermined in Mexico), but vocal and DNA analyses indicate that treatment as separate species more appropriate. Often considered to include O. seductus and O. cooperi as races. Geographical limits of listed races require further study; naevius sometimes merged with nominate. Additional described races probably reflect individual variation or intermediates only: swenki of SC Canada to Oklahoma included in maxwelliae; semplei from C Mexico in mccallii. Six subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- maxwelliae (Ridgway, 1877) - SC Canada and NC USA.
- naevius (J. F. Gmelin, 1788) - SE Canada and NE USA (S to North Carolina).
- asio (Linnaeus, 1758) - Oklahoma E to South Carolina and Georgia.
- maxwelliae (Ridgway, 1877) - SC Canada and NC USA.
- naevius (J. F. Gmelin, 1788) - SE Canada and NE USA (S to North Carolina).
- asio (Linnaeus, 1758) - Oklahoma E to South Carolina and Georgia.
- hasbroucki Ridgway, 1914 - C Oklahoma to Texas.
- floridanus (Ridgway, 1874) - Louisiana to Florida.
- mccallii (Cassin, 1854) - S Texas to NE Mexico.
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A bird in the opening of a broken tree, looking out. Locality Rio Grande Valley State Park, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA (United States) (ssp hasbroucki)
Bill Wayman 1 February 2003 4 years ago 50 sec 4.3 -
A bird on the hand of the zookeeper Locality Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (United States)
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2001 6 years ago 24 sec 4.2
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