Long-tufted Screech Owl
Megascops sanctaecatarinae(Salvin, O, 1897)
English (US) Long-tufted Screech Owl
The Long-tufted Screech Owl (Megascops sanctaecatarinae) 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: foothills of southeastern Brazil, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina (Misiones)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Megascops sanctaecatarinae
- Family
- Strigidae (Owls)
- Order
- Strigiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Long-tufted Screech Owl
- Described by
- (Salvin, O, 1897)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Scops sanctae-catarinae
- Described by
- (Salvin, O, 1897)
- Type locality
- Southern Brazil.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 6 p.37
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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