Southern White-faced Owl
Ptilopsis granti(Kollibay, PR, 1910)
English (US) Southern White-faced Owl
The Southern White-faced Owl (Ptilopsis granti) 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: southeastern Gabon, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Uganda, and southwestern Kenya southward to Namibia, northern and central South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, and MozambiqueRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ptilopsis granti
- Family
- Strigidae (Owls)
- Order
- Strigiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Southern White-faced Owl
- Described by
- (Kollibay, PR, 1910)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pisorhina leucotis granti
- Described by
- (Kollibay, PR, 1910)
- Type locality
- South-West Africa.
- Original description
- Ornithologische Monatsberichte 18 p.148
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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