Peruvian Screech Owl Birds Loja Ecuador.
Update name: Koepcke´s Screech-Owl
URBAN BIRDS OF THE PARKS, GARDENS, AND SOURROUNDING AREAS OF LOJA CITY ECUADOR. BOOK PUBLISHED IN 2009, WITH 44 COMMON SPECIES. ILLUSTRATED BY PABLO ANDRADE. WORK SUPPORTED BY JAN HINLOOPEN.
Peruvian Screech Owl. Megascops koepckeae
Distribution.
Koepcke´s Screech-Owl. Birds Loja Ecuador.- A very small screech Owl found in deciduous woodland and forest as well as scrub – sometimes surprisingly sparse – in lowlands and foothills of southwest. Has been called Peruvian Screech Owl. In the Loja city is found in its sourroundings in secondary ande scrub vegetation as Argelia Park.
Description.
19 – 20,5 cm (7.5 – 18″)
Ear-tufts short; iris yellow. Both morphs look relatively uniform. Gray morph gray above with black and buffy whitish mottling and vermiculations; facial area grayish withblackish rim indistinct; white spots on scapulars and wing-coverts. Below whitish with dense herringbone pattern of blackish streaks and cross-hatching. Relatively rare rufous morph mainly rufescent, with patterning much as in gray morph. Koepcke´s Screech-Owl Birds Loja Ecuador.
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Koepcke´s Screech-Owl Birds Loja Ecuador
Habits.
Inhabiting similar semiopen and lightly wooded habitat.
Voice:
Male songs a fast, low-pitched but rising churring trill that last 2-4 seconds, increasing in volume before fading toward abrupt end. Koepcke´s Screech-Owl Birds Loja Ecuador.
In Loja: kukukukukuku ku ku ku ku. Original song recording in 2009. Koepcke´s Screech Owl
Information taken from the book Birds Of Ecuador of Robert Ridgely and Paul Greenfield.
Koepcke´s Screech-Owl Birds Loja Ecuador