Santa Marta Screech-Owl

Santa Marta Screech-Owl

Santa Marta Screech-Owl

Here the details of the Santa Marta Screech-Owl named bird below:

SCI Name:  Megascops gilesi
Protonym:  Megascops gilesi Ornitologia Colombiana 16 27-Jan
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae /
Taxonomy Code:  samsco1
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Publish Year:  2017
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DEFINITIONS

MEGASCOPS
(Strigidae; Ϯ Eastern Screech Owl M. asio) Gr. μεγας megas, μεγαλη  megalē  great; genus Scops Brünnich, 1772, owl. "5tes Subgenus. Megascops, Kp., Asiones, Schleg.  Schnabel vorgestreckt. Flügel kurz und stumpf. 1ste Schwinge so lang wie die 10te. 1ste bis 5te Schwinge an der Aussen- und Innenfahne deutlich ausgeschnitten. Fusswurzel befiedert. Zehen meist vollständig nackt.   8. Scops asio, Gr. Less." (Kaup 1851). The Eastern Screech Owl and its New World congeners were formerly placed in the genus Scops (= Otus).   
Synon. Athene, Gymnasio, Pseudociccaba.

gilesi
O. A. Robert Giles (fl. 2008) British sponsor, conservationist (‡subsp. Grallaria milleri, Megascops, subsp. Scytalopus griseicollis).