Collared Scops Owl
Otus lettia(Hodgson, BH, 1836)
English (US) Collared Scops Owl
The Collared Scops Owl (Otus lettia) 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.
- Scientific name
- Otus lettia
- Family
- Strigidae (Owls)
- Order
- Strigiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Not Evaluated
- English (US)
- Collared Scops Owl
- Described by
- (Hodgson, BH, 1836)
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Add Your ExpertiseRecognised subspecies
The AviList checklist recognises 6 subspecies for this species.
- Otus lettia plumipes
- Otus lettia lettia
- Otus lettia erythrocampe
- Otus lettia glabripes
- Otus lettia umbratilis
- Otus lettia cnephaeus
Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Scops lettia
- Described by
- (Hodgson, BH, 1836)
- Type locality
- Nepal.
- Original description
- Asiatic Researches; or, Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal, for enquiring into the history, the antiquities, the arts and sciences, and literature of Asia 19 p.176
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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