Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Strigiformes > Strigidae > Margarobyas > Margarobyas lawrenciiMargarobyas lawrencii (Bare-legged Owl; Cuban Screech-Owl)Synonyms: Gymnoglaux lawrencii; Gymnoglaux lawrencii exsul; Gymnoglaux lawrencii lawrencii; Margarobyas lawrencii exsul; Otus lawrencii The bare-legged owl or Cuban screech owl (Margarobyas lawrencii) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae that is endemic to Cuba. It belongs to the monotypic genus Margarobyas.Its natural habitats are dry forests, lowland moist forests, and heavily degraded former forest. It lives in the canopy of the forests where it does most of its foraging. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 24.2329 EDGE Score: 3.22815 |
Adult Weight [1] | 95 grams | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates) | Diet - Ectothermic [2] | 10 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 90 % | Forages - Canopy [2] | 10 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 10 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 20 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 60 % | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | Raptor Research Conservation Priority [4] | 54 |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Alejandro de Humboldt |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Alturas de Banao |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Cayo Sabinal, Ballenatos y Manglares de la Bahía de Nuevitas |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, B4i |
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Cayos Romano-Cruz-Megano Grande |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Cienaga de Lanier y Sur de la Isla de la Juventud |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Ciénaga de Zapata |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Delta del Cauto |
Cuba |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii, B4i |
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Delta del Mayarí |
Cuba |
A1, A3, B4i |
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Desembarco del Granma |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gibara |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gran Piedra: Pico Mogote |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Guanahacabibes |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Hatibonico: Baitiquirí: Imías |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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La Mensura |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Limones-Tuabaquey |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Mil Cumbres |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Pico Cristal |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Río Máximo |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii, B4i |
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Sierra del Chorrillo |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sierra del Rosario |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Topes de Collantes |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Turquino-Bayamesa |
Cuba |
A1, A3, A4ii |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
Yes |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Arendt, W.J.; Faaborg, J.; Wallace, G.E.; Garrido, O.H. 2004. Biometrics of
birds throughout the Greater Caribbean basin. Proceedings of the Western
Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. 8(1): 1-33. ♦ 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 ♦ 3Jetz 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 ♦ 4Buechley 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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