Giant Scops Owl - Mimizuku gurneyi

Formerly Otus gurneyi, first described as Pseudoptynx gurneyi

Also known as Lesser Eagle Owl, Mindanao Owl

Status: Rare and endangered.

Original Description: Tweeddale, Arthur Hay, 9th, Marquis of. 1879. Proceedings of the Scientific meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1878 (PZS): Pt 4, p 940, pl. 58.

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