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Megascops trichopsis (Whiskered Screech-Owl; Whiskered Screech Owl)

Synonyms: Otus trichopsis; Scops trichopsis
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The whiskered screech owl (Megascops trichopsis), is a small scops owl found in North and Central America.
View Wikipedia Record: Megascops trichopsis

Infraspecies

Megascops trichopsis aspersus
Megascops trichopsis mesamericanus
Megascops trichopsis trichopsis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.2922
EDGE Score: 2.42412
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  89 grams
Female Weight [4]  100 grams
Male Weight [4]  87 grams
Weight Dimorphism [4]  14.9 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests, Pine-oak forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [3]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  50 %
Forages - Understory [3]  20 %
Forages - Ground [3]  10 %
Clutch Size [5]  4
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  200,000
Nocturnal [6]  Yes
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [7]  61
Snout to Vent Length [1]  7 inches (19 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Atitlan Guatemala A1, A2, A3
Montecristo Guatemala A1, A3
Montecristo Forest El Salvador A1, A2, A3

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Sceloporus jarrovii (Yarrow's Spiny Lizard)[4]
Sceloporus virgatus (Striped Plateau Lizard)[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 7Buechley 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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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