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Help in identifying my friend's Owl (1 Viewer)

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Hi guys, I'm santi from the Philippines. I would like to ask for your help in identifying my friend's owl. We are concerned that it might be an endangered specie. (If it is, we will surrender it to our local wildlife authority)


Thanks in Advance.
 

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I think you should take it to your local wildlife authority as soon as you can! I do not know what the laws concerning the keeping of wildfowl are in the Philippines, but here in the United States it is illegal.

I believe that it is a Philippine Scops Owl, Otus megalotis.
 
I think you should take it to your local wildlife authority as soon as you can! I do not know what the laws concerning the keeping of wildfowl are in the Philippines, but here in the United States it is illegal.

I believe that it is a Philippine Scops Owl, Otus megalotis.

Thanks for the quick reply. We're planning to bring it to the wildlife center soon.

I have search it in google, http://www.owlpages.com/image.php?image=species-Otus-megalotis-1

The body/feather features are similar but the eyes are different from my attached pictures to the one in Manila Zoo (Link above)
 
All the photos have "red eye", a common problem with flash photography. The effect is too pronounced on the zoo photos to tell what the original eye color was. Your friend's owl--see in particular photo 1--appears to be yellow-eyed.
 
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