Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1758)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.92

Protonym:
  Strix Scops

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  52AD9793D31D006A

Avibase ID:
  avibase-52AD9793

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/52AD9793

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 555376

Geographic range:

• Otus scops scops: France and Medit. is. to Volga R., n Greece and Transcaucasia
• Otus scops mallorcae: Iberian Pen., Balearic Is., n Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
• Otus scops cycladum: S Greece and Crete, s Asia Minor, Israel, s Turkey and Jordan
• Otus scops turanicus: Iraq through Iran and s Transcaspia to nw Pakistan
• Otus scops pulchellus: Volga R. to Lake Baikal and south to Altai and Tien Shan Mts.
• Otus cyprius: Cyprus
• Otus sunia sunia: N Pakistan to Bangladesh and n India
• Otus sunia malayanus: southern China (Yunnan to e Guangdong); at least partially migratory, wintering to the southern Malay Peninsula and perhaps to northern Sumatra
• Otus sunia rufipennis: S India
• Otus sunia leggei: Sri Lanka
• Otus sunia modestus: Assam to Myanmar, Thailand, Indochina; Andaman, Nicobar is.
• Otus sunia distans: northern and eastern Thailand and Indochina
• Otus sunia nicobaricus: Nicobar Islands
• Otus sunia stictonotus: breeds southeastern Siberia to northeastern China, Sakhalin I. and northern Korea; winters southeastern China south at least to southern Thailand
• Otus sunia japonicus: breeds Japan; at least partially migratory, but winter range not well documented
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