Siau Scops Owl

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iSiau Scops Owl

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Otus
Species: O. siaoensis
Binomial name
Otus siaoensis
Schlegel, 1873

The Siau Scops Owl (Otus siaoensis) is a critically endangered owl and may be extinct. They live on the island of Siau, north of Sulawesi, Indonesia and are (were) forest dwellers. The species is only known from a single holotype from 1866 although their have been some local reports in recent years. Even so their population (which was small to begin with because of limited range) is being devistated by loss of habit due to excessive logging of the forest on the island and there would be very few if any indivuals left. The future for this owl does not look good.


[edit] References

http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/40480/summ

http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/40480/dist

http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/40480/doc

http://www.rdb.or.id/detailbird.php?id=265