Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Scopoli, 1769)

Reference:
  AnnusIHist.-Nat. p.21

Protonym:
  Strix alba

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  298E602033E07188

Avibase ID:
  avibase-298E6020

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/298E6020

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 177851

Geographic range:

• Tyto alba alba: W and s Europe; w Canary Islands and North Africa
• Tyto alba guttata: Central Europe east to sw European USSR and ne Greece
• Tyto alba ernesti: Corsica and Sardinia
• Tyto alba erlangeri: Crete and Cyprus to sw Iran, ne Egypt and s Arabian Peninsula
• Tyto alba schmitzi: Madeira and Porto Santo I.
• Tyto alba gracilirostris: E Canary Islands (Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Alegranza)
• Tyto alba poensis: Bioko (Gulf of Guinea)
• Tyto alba thomensis: São Tomé (Gulf of Guinea)
• Tyto alba [furcata or niveicauda]: Cuba, Cayman Islands and Jamaica
• Tyto alba [pratincola or lucayana]: S Canada to n Mexico, Bermuda, Bahamas and Hispaniola
• Tyto alba [guatemalae or subandeana]: W Guatemala to Panama, Pearl Islands and Colombia
• Tyto alba bondi: Bay Islands off n Honduras (Roatán and Guanaja)
• Tyto alba hellmayri: Guianas to n Brazil, Margarita I., Trinidad and Tobago
• Tyto alba contempta: W Colombia to Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru
• Tyto alba [tuidara or zottae]: Brazil s of the Amazon to Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Is.
• Tyto alba bargei: Curaçao
• Tyto alba punctatissima: Galapagos Islands
• Tyto alba insularis: St. Vincent, Bequia, Union, Carriacou and Grenada
• Tyto alba nigrescens: Dominica (Lesser Antilles)
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