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Otus pauliani

(Petit-duc de Karthala)

Overview

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Critically Endangered

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Comoro Scops-Owl, Cormoro Scops-Owl, Grand Comoro Scops Owl, Grand Comoro Scops-Owl, Karthala Scops Owl

Common Names in French:

Petit-duc de Karthala, Petit-duc du karthala

Common Names in Russian:

Совка большая коморская

Common Names in Spanish:

Autillo de las comores

Description

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Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: This species occurs from 650 m upwards to the tree line6. It is territorial , occurring in primary , montane , evergreen forest , favouring areas with old hollow trees, but is also found in "pioneer forest"; (forest that grows on rocky soils)3,4 and regenerating forest dominated by Psidium cattleianum6. It shows a preference for edge habitat : either edges along the upper limits of the forest where it is replaced by giant heath Philippia, edges along old lava-flows, or edges of open areas within the forest itself3. Its feeding and breeding ecology are unknown.

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Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Otus pauliani (Benson, 1960)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 28-Sep-2005

Similar Species

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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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Notes

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Footnotes

  1. BirdLife International 2009. Otus pauliani. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 03 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/14/2012