Family Typical Owls (Strigidae)
Least Concern
Wallace's Scops-owl (Otus silvicola)
Taxonomy
French: Petit-duc de Wallace German: Wallace-Zwergohreule Spanish: Autillo de Wallace
Taxonomy:
Scops silvicola
Wallace
, 1864,Flores
.Distribution:
Sumbawa and Flores, in Lesser Sundas.
Descriptive notes
23–27 cm; 212 g (one subadult). Fairly large scops-owl (wing length 202–251 mm); facial disc fairly uniform tan, with paler eyebrows; long ear-tufts mottled brown... read more
Voice
Territorial call steady series of c. 10 (up to 18) deep “whumph” notes on same pitch;... read more
Habitat
Semi-evergreen lowland rainforest, forest edge, and submontane forest with bamboo thickets; more... read more
Food and feeding
No information. Probably mostly insectivorous.
Breeding
Very little information; male taken in Dec had enlarged testes. Clutches of 2 and 3 eggs attributed to present species taken on Flores in... read more
Movements
Presumably sedentary.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened (Least Concern). CITES II. Restricted-range species: present in Northern Nusa Tenggara EBA. Formerly considered Near Threatened. Probably under-... read more
Relationships unclear; probably closest to the O. bakkamoena species complex. Monotypic.