Southern Tawny-bellied Screech Owl - Megascops usta

Formerly Otus usta, formerly considered a southern subspecies of Megascops (Otus) watsonii

Status: Uncertain, locally not rare.

Original Description: Sclater, Philip Lutley. 1859. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, pt.26, No.355, p. 132.

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