Otus flammeolus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests • Minimum Elevation: 1,350 meters • Maximum Elevation: 3,100 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper montaine: mountains, upper range, above 3,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: High

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,495 meters (0 to 8,186 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.1     Forest - Boreal   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
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Biology

Diet

Mostly: Insects.

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Woodland
• Nest Location: N/A
• Nest Type: Cavity
• Clutch Size: 3-4
• Length of Incubation : 26 days
• Number of Broods: 1?

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Otus flammeolus (Kaup, 1852) • Otus flammeolus (Kaup, 1853) • Otus flammeolus flammeolus (Kaup

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 28-Sep-2005

Similar Species

Northern Pygmy Owl, Western Screech Owl, Whiskered Screech Owl

Members of the genus Otus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 119 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

O. alfredi (Flores Scops Owl) · O. alius (Nicobar Scops Owl) · O. angelinae (Javan Scops Owl) · O. asio (McCall's Screech Owl) · O. asio aikeni (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio asio (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio bendirei (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio brewsteri (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio cardonensis (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio cineraceus (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio floridanus (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio hasbroucki (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio inyoensis (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio kennicotti (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio macfarlanei (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio maxwelliae (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio mccalli (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio naevius (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio quercinus (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio swenki (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio xantusi (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. asio yumanensis (Eastern Screech-Owl) · O. atricapillus (Black-Capped Screech Owl) · O. atricapillus atricapillus (Black-Capped Screech Owl) · O. bakkamoena (Collared Scops Owl) · O. bakkamoena bakkamoena (Collared Scops Owl) · O. balli (Andaman Scops Owl) · O. barbarus (Santa Barbara Screech Owl) · O. beccarii (Biak Island Scops Owl) · O. brookii (Rajah's Scops Owl) · O. brookii brookii (Rajah's Scops Owl) · O. brucei (Striated Scops Owl) · O. brucei brucei (Striated Scops Owl) · O. capnodes (Anjouan Scops Owl) · O. choliba (Maria Koepcke's Screech Owl) · O. choliba choliba (Tropical Screech-Owl) · O. clarkii (Bare Shanked Screech Owl) · O. collari (Sangihe Scops-Owl) · O. colombianus (Colombian Screech-Owl) · O. cooperi (Pacific Screech-Owl) · O. cooperii (Pacific Screech Owl) · O. cooperi cooperi (Pacific Screech-Owl) · O. elegans (Elegant Scops Owl) · O. elegans elegans (Elegant Scops-Owl) · O. enganensis (Enggano Scops-Owl) · O. flammeolus (Flammulated Screech Owl) · O. flammeolus flammeolus (Flammulated Owl) · O. fuliginosus (Palawan Scops Owl) · O. guatemalae (Variable Screech-Owl) · O. hartlaubi (Sao Thome Scops Owl) · O. hoyi (Black-Capped Screech Owl) · O. icterorhynchus (Cinnamon Scops Owl) · O. icterorhynchus holerythrus (Cameroon Scops-Owl) · O. icterorhynchus icterorhynchus (Cinnamon Scops Owl) · O. ingens (Rufescent Screech-Owl) · O. ingens ingens (Rufescent Screech-Owl) · O. insularis (Seychelles Bare-Legged Scops Owl) · O. ireneae (Morden's Scops-Owl) · O. kennicottii (Rocky Mountain Screech Owl) · O. lempii (Collared Scops Owl) · O. lempiji (Sunda Scops Owl) · O. lettia (Collared Scops Owl) · O. leucotis (White-Faced Owl) · O. leucotis leucotis (White-Faced Scops Owl) · O. longicornis (Luzon Scops Owl) · O. madagascariensis (Torotoroka Scops Owl) · O. magicus (Moluccan Scops Owl) · O. magicus magicus (Moluccan Scops Owl) · O. manadensis (Sulawesi Scops Owl) · O. mantananensis (South Philippines Scops Owl) · O. mantananensis mantananensis (South Philippines Scops Owl) · O. mayottensis (Mayotte Scops Owl) · O. megalotis (Philippine Scops Owl) · O. megalotis megalotis (Philippine Scops Owl) · O. mentawi (Mentawai Scops Owl) · O. mindorensis (Mindoro Scops Owl) · O. mirus (Mindanao Scops Owl) · O. moheliensis (Moheli Scops Owl) · O. nudipes (White-Throated Screech-Owl) · O. nudipes newtoni (Puerto Rican Screech-Owl) · O. nudipes nudipes (Puerto Rican Screech Owl) · O. pauliani (Grand Comoro Scops Owl) · O. pembaensis (Pemba Scops Owl) · O. petersoni (Cinnamon Screech-Owl) · O. podarginus (Palau Scops-Owl) · O. roboratus (West Peruvian Screech-Owl) · O. roboratus roboratus (West Peruvian Screech Owl) · O. rufescens (Reddish Scops Owl) · O. rufescens rufescens (Reddish Scops Owl) · O. rutilus (Anjouan Scops Owl) · O. rutilus capnodes (Anjouan Scops Owl) · O. rutilus rutilus (Madagascar Scops Owl) · O. sagittatus (White-Fronted Scops Owl) · O. scops (Eurasian Scops-Owl) · O. scops scops (European Scops-Owl) · O. seductus (Balsas Screech Owl) · O. semitorques (Japanese Scops-Owl) · O. senegalensis (African Scops-Owl) · O. siaoensis (Siau Scops-Owl) · O. silvicola (Lesser Sunda Scops-Owl)

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Further Reading

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• A history of the birds of Colorado, London, Witherby & Co., 1912. url .
• A systematic list of the birds of California / by Joseph Grinnell. Hollywood: Cooper Ornithological Club, 1912. url p. 13.
• An early pleistocene avifauna from Inglis, Florida / by Gail Elaine Speaker Carr. 1981. url .
• Assessment of the Red Rock River subbasin and wetlands of the Centennial Valley / Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c2009. url .
• Bird blow flies (Protocalliphora) in North America (Diptera: Calliphoridae), with notes on the Palearctic species / Curtis W. Sabrosky, Gordon F. Bennett, and Terry L. Whitworth. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1989. url p. 235.
• Birds of California: an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies / Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1912, c1903. url .
• Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies, Chicago, A.C. McClurg, 1916. url .
• Birds of Oregon, by Ira N. Gabrielson. .. and Stanley G. Jewett. .. Corvallis, Or., Pub. by Oregon State College through the O.S.C. Cooperative Association[c1940] url , p. 337.
• Birds; a miscellaneous collection of 37 pamphlets about birds. Collected and privately bound by Alvin Seale, 1914. v.p., 1910-1913 url p. 52, p. 55.
• Boreal owl (Aegolius funereus) and flammulated owl (Otus flammeolus) survey results for the Livingston District of the Gallatin National Forest / by Monica Brelsford for the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Gallatin National Forest. Helena, MT: Montana Natural Heritage Program, 1992] url , , .
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• Catalogue of a collection of birds from Guatemala, by Ned Dearborn. 1 1907 Chicago, 1907. url p. 84.
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• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 499.
• Check-list of North American birds, prepared by a committee of the American Ornithologists' Union. New York, American Ornithologists' Union, 1910. url p. 174.
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 277, p. 668.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 292.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 95.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 191, p. 227.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 129, p. 225, p. 70.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 159.
• Environmental analysis for the Mudd Creek Timber Sale / [Plains MT.: Northwestern Land Office, Dept of Natural Resources and Conservation., 2007]. url .
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• Field book of birds of the southwestern United States, by sqther E. Wyman. .. and Elizabeth F. Burnell. .. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. url p. 114, p. 261.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Otus flammeolus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2004. Version 2005.2. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
• Sauer, J. R., S. Schwartz, and B. Hoover. 1996. The Christmas Bird Count Home Page. Version 95.1. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
• Species At Risk Act Public Registry, Government of Canada

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Royal British Columbia Museum
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9657
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-177878
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13813691
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177878
• IUCN ID: 229100
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNSB01020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178127

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,393.150 meters (4,570.702 feet), Standard Deviation = 639.240 based on 222 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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