Red Owl
Tyto soumagnei(Grandidier, A, 1878)
English (US) Red Owl
The Red Owl (Tyto soumagnei) 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 Tytonidae (Bay Owls and Barn Owls) in the order Strigiformes.
Range: very locally northern and eastern Madagascar; most recent records from far northRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Tyto soumagnei
- Order
- Strigiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Red Owl
- Described by
- (Grandidier, A, 1878)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Heliodilus Soumagnei
- Described by
- (Grandidier, A, 1878)
- Type locality
- Madagascar.
- Original description
- Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 85 p.1282,note 2
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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