Bearded Screech Owl
Megascops barbarus(Sclater, PL; Salvin, O, 1868)
English (US) Bearded Screech Owl
The Bearded Screech Owl (Megascops barbarus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Strigidae (Owls) in the order Strigiformes.
Range: montane forest of southern Mexico (Chiapas) and northern GuatemalaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Megascops barbarus
- Family
- Strigidae (Owls)
- Order
- Strigiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Bearded Screech Owl
- Described by
- (Sclater, PL; Salvin, O, 1868)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Scops barbarus
- Described by
- (Sclater, PL; Salvin, O, 1868)
- Type locality
- Santa Barbara, Vera Paz, Guatemala.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868, pt.1 p.56
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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