Introduction
The São Tomé Scops Owl is a very small owl with very small ear-tufts.
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Information
Distribution: Endemic to São Tomé Island in the Gulf of Guinea on the western equatorial coast of Africa.
Range of the São Tomé Scops Owl Otus hartlaubi
Status: Listed as Vulnerable by Birdlife International.
Original Description: Giebel, Christoph, & Gottfried, Andreus. 1872. Thesaurus ornithologiae [Ornithological Thesaurus. Repertorium of the complete ornithological literature and nomenclature of the complete genera and species of birds next to synonyms and geographical distribution], 1, p. 448.
