World Species : Megascops watsonii (Tawny-bellied Screech Owl)

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Megascops watsonii (Tawny-bellied Screech Owl)

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Synonyms: Ephialtes watsonii; Otus watsonii

Wikipedia Abstract

The tawny-bellied screech owl (Megascops watsonii) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae.It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps.

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Infraspecies

Megascops watsonii usta
Megascops watsonii watsonii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 6.11579

EDGE Score: 1.96232

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	129 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	90 %
Diet - Vertibrates ^[2]	10 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	30 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	50 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	20 %

Nocturnal ^[2]	Yes
Raptor Research Conservation Priority ^[3]	66

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Apure-Villavicencio dry forests	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Caqueta moist forests	Brazil, Columbia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Freshwater swamp forests	Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Highlands moist forests	Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan moist forests	Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan savanna	Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Gurupa varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Iquitos varzea	Brazil, Peru, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests	Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Juruá-Purus moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests	Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Maracaibo dry forests	Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Marajó varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Mato Grosso seasonal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Monte Alegre varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Napo moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Negro-Branco moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantepuis	Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus-Madeira moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Solimões-Japurá moist forest	Brazil, Colombia, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tapajós-Xingu moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests	Brazil, Guyana, Suriname	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ucayali moist forests	Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Graves, GR and RL Zusi. 1990. Avian body weights from lower Rio Xingu, Brazil. Bull. Brit. Ornithol. Club 110:20–25
♦ 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
♦ ³Buechley 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

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