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Peruvian Screech-Owl
Black-capped Screech-Owl
Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl
Megascops watsonii
Order:
Strigiformes
Family:
Strigidae
Polytypic: 2 subspecies
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Recommended Citation
Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl
(
Megascops watsonii
), In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online:
https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/tabsco1