Typical Owls (Strigidae)
Enggano Scops-owl (Otus enganensis) - HBW 5, p. 168
French: Petit-duc d’Enggano
German: Engganoeule
Spanish: Autillo de la Enggano
Taxonomy: Otus umbra enganensis Riley, 1927, Enggano Island.
Probably forms superspecies with O. umbra and O. alius. Sometimes considered conspecific with O. magicus. Formerly treated as race of O. umbra, O. scops or O. sunia; seems closest to O. umbra, but separated specifically on basis primarily of vocal characteristics. Monotypic.
Distribution: Enggano I, off SW Sumatra.
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Enggano Scops-owl. Perching in a tree at close range from the observer - in response to playback of a recording of its own call.
Locality Enggano Island, Bengkulu Region, Sumatra (Indonesia)
Filip Verbelen 9 February 2009 6 weeks ago 4.6 -
Enggano Scops-owl.
Locality Enggano Island, Bengkulu Region, Sumatra (Indonesia)
Filip Verbelen 9 February 2009 6 weeks ago 4.6 -
Enggano Scops-owl.
Locality Enggano Island, Bengkulu Region, Sumatra (Indonesia)
Filip Verbelen 9 February 2009 6 weeks ago 3.7
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