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Strix leptogrammica

Photo by Laurence Poh
Temenggor Forest in North Perak, Malaysia, August 2003

Includes Bartels's Wood-Owl; Himalayan Wood-Owl

[edit] Identification

45-57cm

• Dark brown upperparts
• White spotted shoulders
• Buff, brown-streaked underparts
• Brown or rufous-edged facial disc
• Dark brown iris
• White neckband
  

Sexes similar

[edit] Distribution

Asia: found in China, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Taiwan
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Malay Peninsula, Brunei, Borneo, Indonesia, Greater Sundas, Sumatra

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 14 subspecies:

• S. l. newarensis: Himalayan Wood-Owl Himalayas (Jammu and Kashmir to north-eastern India)
• S. l. ticehursti: Myanmar to south-eastern China, Thailand, northern Laos and northern Vietnam
• S. l. caligata: Hainan and Taiwan
• S. l. laotiana: Southern Laos and central Vietnam (Annam)
• S. l. indranee: Peninsular India
• S. l. ochrogenys: Sri Lanka
• S. l. maingayi: Southern Myanmar, southern Thailand and Malay Peninsula
• S. l. myrtha: Sumatra
• S. l. nyctiphasma: Banyak Island (off north-western Sumatra)
• S. l. niasensis: Nias Island (off north-western Sumatra)
• S. l. chaseni: Belitung Island (Java Sea off south-eastern Sumatra)
• S. l. vaga: Northern Borneo
• S. l. leptogrammica: Central and southern Borneo
• S. l. bartelsi: Bartel's Wood-Owl Java

[edit] Habitat

Lowland primary rainforest (broad-leaved and evergreen) and forest edges, up to 2,590m.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes small mammals, reptiles, grasshoppers and birds.

[edit] Breeding

It nests in a tree hole. The clutch consists of 2 eggs.

[edit] Vocalisation

They make a very low purring sound.

[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. Wikipedia
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

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