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Photo by James Eaton
Lanyu Island, Taiwan, April 2005

Alternative name: Elegant Scops Owl

Otus elegans

[edit] Identification

• Rufous brown
• Brown facial disk
• White lores
• White line above eye
• Cinnamon facial ruff with dark brown border
• Rufous ear tufts with black spots
• Red brown below with buff and dark brown mottling
• Dark cinnamon throat and breast with dark brown streaks and white and brown mottling
• Yellow iris
• Olive grey bill
• Grey brown feet

[edit] Distribution

Asia: found in Japan, Taiwan
Southeast Asia: Philippines, Luçon.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 4 subspecies:

• O. e. elegans:

• Ryukyu Islands (southern Japan)

• O. e. interpositus:

• Daito Islands (southern Japanese Archipelago)

• O. e. botelensis:

• Lan-yü Island (off south-eastern Taiwan)

• O. e. calayensis:

• Northern Philippines (Batan, Sabtang and Calayan)

[edit] Habitat

Semi tropical evergreen forest edges to 550m and farmland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Birding in Taiwan

• List of references

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