Typical Owls (Strigidae)
Guatemalan Screech-owl (Otus guatemalae) - HBW 5, p. 180
French: Petit-duc guatémaltèque
German: Rotgesichteule
Spanish: Autillo Guatemalteco
Other common names: Middle American Screech-owl
Taxonomy: Scops guatemalæ Sharpe, 1875, Guatemala.
Perhaps a member of a superspecies, along with O. vermiculatus, O. hoyi, O. atricapillus and O. sanctaecatarinae. Sometimes considered conspecific with O. atricapillus; has been treated as conspecific with O. vermiculatus, but vocally distinct. Races tomlini, fuscus and thompsoni possibly inadequately differentiated to merit subspecific status; proposed races pettingilli and peteni included in hastatus and nominate guatemalae respectively. Seven subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- tomlini R. T. Moore, 1937 - NW Mexico (S Sonora and SW Chihuahua S to Sinaloa).
- hastatus (Ridgway, 1887) - SW Sinaloa to Oaxaca.
- cassini (Ridgway, 1878) - E Mexico (S Tamaulipas and N Veracruz).
- tomlini R. T. Moore, 1937 - NW Mexico (S Sonora and SW Chihuahua S to Sinaloa).
- hastatus (Ridgway, 1887) - SW Sinaloa to Oaxaca.
- cassini (Ridgway, 1878) - E Mexico (S Tamaulipas and N Veracruz).
- fuscus R. T. Moore & J. L. Peters, 1939 - Veracruz.
- thompsoni Cole, 1906 - Yucatán Peninsula and Cozumel I.
- guatemalae (Sharpe, 1875) - SE Mexico (S Veracruz and NE Oaxaca) to Honduras.
- dacrysistactus R. T. Moore & J. L. Peters, 1939 - N Nicaragua.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in a tree at night, looking around and flying away Locality Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo State, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (Southern) (ssp thompsoni)
Josep del Hoyo 25 September 2006 4 years ago 51 sec 4.2 -
A brown morph individual on a wall. Locality Chan Chich, Gallon Jug, Orange Walk District, Belize (ssp guatemalae)
DAVID ASCANIO 1 December 2007 3 years ago 26 sec 2.5
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