Brown Wood Owl - Strix leptogrammica

Typical Calls

India. (listen for the rarely heard introductory note on the second call)

© Bruce Marcot

Distribution of the Brown Wood Owl Strix leptogrammica

Status: Rather rare, but locally not uncommon.

Original Description: Temminck, Coenraad Jacob. 1832. Nouveau recueil de planches coloriees d'oiseaux, pour servier de suite et de complement aux planches enluminees de Buffon: livraison 89, pl. 525. See Dickinson, EC. 2001. Systematic notes on Asian birds: 9. The "Nouveau recueil de planches coloriees" of Temminck & Laugier (1820-1839)' Zool. Verh., Leiden 335 p.43,45.

Subspecies: S. l. leptogrammica, S. l. indranee, S. l. maingayi, S. l. myrtha, S. l. niasensis, S. l. nyctiphasma, S. l. ochrogenys, S. l. vaga, S. l. chaseni, S. l. bartelsi

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Page compiled by Deane P. Lewis. Page last updated 2012-08-22

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