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Within Vinony's link graph, Mountain Scops Owl is referenced by 31 other articles, and connects out to India, Animalia and bird.
It sits within the topics Birds described in 1846, Birds of Eastern Himalaya and Birds of South China.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Otus spilocephalus
- taxon name
- Otus spilocephalus
- taxon common name
- mocho-de-orelhas-montesino
- litter size
- 2.4
- short name
- O. spilocephalus
- taxon range
- Nanling Mountains
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Encyclopedic overview
The mountain scops owl (Otus spilocephalus), sometimes referred to as the spotted scops owl, is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. Its range extends across much of south and southeast Asia, from Pakistan and the Himalayas in the northwest, through Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia in the east and south.
The nominate subspecies of the eastern Himalayas has a distinct more russet plumage.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mountain Scops Owl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.