Typical Owls (Strigidae)

Mentawai Scops-owl (Otus mentawi) - HBW 5, p. 157

French: Petit-duc des Mentawei German: Mentawi-Zwergohreule Spanish: Autillo de las Mentawai
Other common names: Sipora Scops-owl

Taxonomy: Otus bakkamœna mentawi Chasen and Kloss, 1926, Sipora Island.
Probably forms superspecies with O. bakkamoena, O. lettia, O. lempiji, O. semitorques, O. fuliginosus and O. megalotis. Has sometimes been treated as conspecific with O. bakkamoena, O. lempiji, O. sunia or O. manadensis, but vocalizations distinct. Monotypic.

Distribution: Mentawai Is (Siberut to S Pagai), off W Sumatra.