Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Black-capped Screech Owl, Black-capped Screech-Owl
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, southern temperate forests • Maximum Elevation: 1,150 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Southern Atlantic Coast • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.4 Forest - Temperate
- 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.5 Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas
- 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Falconimorphae
()
- Seebohm, 1890
- Order:
Strigiformes
()
- Wagler, 1830
- Order:
Strigiformes
(
- Superorder:
Falconimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Otus atricapillus (Temminck
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 28-Sep-2005
Similar Species
Members of the genus Megascops
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. albogularis (White-Throated Screech Owl) · M. asio (Eastern Screech-Owl) · M. asio asio (Eastern Screech Owl) · M. atricapilla (Black-Capped Screech-Owl) · M. barbarus (Santa Barbara Screech-Owl) · M. choliba (Tropical Screech Owl) · M. clarkii (Bare-Shanked Screech Owl) · M. colombianus (Colombian Screech-Owl) · M. cooperi (Pacific Screech Owl) · M. flammeolus (Flammulated Owl) · M. guatemalae (Variable Screech-Owl) · M. hoyi (Montane Forest Screech-Owl) · M. ingens (Rufescent Screech Owl) · M. kennicottii (Tecolote Occidental) · M. kennicottii kennicottii (Coastal Western Screech-Owl) · M. kennicottii macfarlanei (Interior Western Screech-Owl) · M. kennicottii saturatus (Puget Sound Screech-Owl) · M. koepckeae (Koepcke's Screech Owl) · M. marshalli (Cloud-Forest Screech Owl) · M. nudipes (Puerto Rican Screech Owl) · M. petersoni (Cinnamon Screech Owl) · M. roboratus (Peruvian Screech-Owl) · M. sanctaecatarinae (Long-Tufted Screech Owl) · M. seductus (Balsas Screech Owl) · M. trichopsis (Whiskered Screech Owl) · M. trichopsis trichopsis (Whiskered Screech Owl) · M. watsonii (Tawny-Bellied Screech Owl)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 1 1878 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 505, p. 95.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2009. Megascops atricapilla. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
- 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 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Access date: Dec 30, 2005
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 12, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- 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.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 12, 2008:
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4823355
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-686676
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13548591
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 555397
- IUCN ID: 222257
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 674058
