Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Strigiformes > Strigidae > Otus > Otus hartlaubiOtus hartlaubi (Sao Tome Scops Owl)Synonyms: Athene hartlaubi The São Tomé scops-owl (Otus hartlaubi), alternatively known as petit-duc de Sao Tomé, or autillo de Santo Tomé, is a species of owl in the true owl (a.k.a. Strigidae) family which is one of the two families of owl. Within that family, this owl is in the scops owl (a.k.a. Otus) genus; this is the genus of owls having the largest number of species. This owl species is endemic to São Tomé Island, in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It is a small creature, about 18 centimetres (7.1 in) long, weighing about 79 grams (0.174 lb). |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.6235 EDGE Score: 3.41753 |
Adult Weight [1] | 79 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates) | Diet - Ectothermic [2] | 10 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 90 % | Forages - Canopy [2] | 10 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 40 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 40 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 10 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [4] | 2 | Incubation [3] | 26 days | Maximum Longevity [3] | 10 years | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | Raptor Research Conservation Priority [5] | 18 |
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Guinean Forests of West Africa |
Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo |
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![](/img/rangekey.png) Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Kemp, AC. 1989. Estimation of Biological Indices for Little-known African Owls Meyburg, B.-U & R. D. Chancellor eds. 1989 Raptors in the Modern World WWGBP: Berlin, London & Paris ♦ 4Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 5Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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