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Genus Otus
Nicobar scops-owl - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Its status is insufficiently known.
Javan Scops Owl - The Javan Scops Owl is a rare owl native to Indonesia. There are no sub-species.
Indian Scops-Owl - This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. The other grouping is the barn owls, Tytonidae.
Andaman Scops Owl - The Andaman Scops Owl Otus balli is an owl native to the Andaman Islands.
Papuan Scops-Owl - The Biak Scops Owl is an owl endemic to the twin islands of Biak-Supiori in Geelvink Bay, Papua , Indonesia. It is classified as Endangered due to its very small range and destruction of its habitat.
Rajah Scops Owl - The Rajah Scops Owl is common through most of its Indonesian habitat. There are two subspecies.
Pallid Scops Owl - The Pallid Scops Owl is a small Scops Owl ranging from the Middle East to West and Central Asia, sometimes called the Striated Scops Owl.
Anjouan Scops-Owl - This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. The other grouping is the barn owls, Tytonidae.
Elegant Scops-Owl - It is found on the Nansei Shoto islands, southern Japan, on Lanyu Island, off south-east Taiwan, and on the Batanes and Babuyan islands off northern Luzon, Philippines in semi-tropical evergreen forest. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
Otus enganensis - The Enggano Scops Owl is an owl endemic to Enggano Island, Indonesia.
Flammulated owl - The call is a series of relatively deep single or double hoots.
Palawan Scops Owl - The Palawan Scops Owl is an owl endemic to the Philippines. There are no sub-species.
Sandy Scops-Owl - The Sandy Scops Owl is an owl found in Africa.
Seychelles Scops-Owl - It reaches a length between 19 and 22 cm. The wings are about 17 cm. Its plumage is rufous brown and exhibits black shaft streaks. The underparts and the facial disc are rufous. The long grey legs are unfeathered. The eyes are large and golden yellow. The ear tufts are very small. Its call which sounds like a rasping "whaugh" with various "tok tok" notes can be heard from a far distance and in particular in the darkness. Its diet consists of geckos, tree frogs and insects .
Morden's owlet - The Sokoke Scops Owl, Otus ireneae, is an owl found in Kenya and Tanzania. The greatest population of this species of owl is in the Cynometra-Manilkara forest, which is less than one-third of the Sokoke forest. It is also found in the Afzelia-Cynometra forest. The Sokoke Scops Owl can grow up to 16 to 18 cm and can weigh up to 50 grams and is the smallest scops owl of the Otus genus. It is insectivorous and can be either grey or rufous-brown.
White-faced Scops Owl - The Northern White-faced Owl is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. The Southern White-faced Owl was formerly included in this species and the two were known as the White-faced Scops-Owl.
Luzon Scops Owl - The Luzon Scops Owl is an owl is endemic to Luzon, Philippines. There are no sub-species.
Torotoroka Scops-owl - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Sulawesi Scops Owl - The Sulawesi Scops Owl is an owl found in southeast Asia.
Mantanani Scops-Owl - Various subspecies have been described, including the nominate from the Mantanani Islands, and O. m. sibutuensis from the Sulu islands. It has sometimes been considered a race of the Eurasian Scops-owl or the Oriental Scops-owl.
Mayotte scops owl - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Philippine Scops Owl - This owl grows to a length of 20 cm. Their big forward-facing eyes are dark with an orange-red rim. Their crown, ear tufts and feathers are dark brown, with dark streaks above. The facial disk has a dark rim. The forehead has a whitish pale color. They have big erect ears, as their name "megalotis" indicates.
Sipora Scops Owl - The Mentawai Scops Owl is endemic to larger islands of Mentawai, off west Sumatra, Indonesia.
Mindoro Scops Owl - The Mindoro Scops Owl is an owl is endemic to Mindoro, Philippines. There are no sub-species.
Mindanao Scops Owl - The Mindanao Scops Owl is an owl endemic to Mindanao, Philippines.
Moheli scops-owl - This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. The other grouping is the barn owls, Tytonidae.
Grand Comoro Scops-Owl - This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. The other grouping is the barn owls, Tytonidae.
Pemba Scops Owl - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and plantations . It is threatened by habitat loss.
Palau owl - The Palau Owl is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. Formerly united with the scops owls in Otus, it is now placed in its own genus Pyrroglaux.
Reddish Scops-Owl - The Reddish Scops Owl is an owl found in southeast Asia.
Madagascar Scops-Owl - The Malagasy Scops-owl , also known as the Rainforest Scops-owl, is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. It is found in a large part of eastern Madagascar, but the exact distribution limits between it and the Torotoroka Scops-owl , with which it was long considered conspecific, require further study. The natural habitat of the Malagasy Scops-owl is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
White-fronted Scops Owl - The White-fronted Scops Owl Otus sagittatus has a small and declining population that little is known about. It is dependent on lowland and foothill forest which is rapidly being destroyed. It is considered vulnerable and has a population of about 2,500-10,000. Its range covers 149,000 km of forest from 0-700 meters above sea-level. The main threat to this Asian owl is habitat loss.
Eurasian Scops Owl - It breeds in open woodland, parks and gardens. It lays 3-6 eggs in a tree hole. This is a small owl, and at 19-21 cm length and a 47-54 cm wingspan is not as large as the Little Owl. It takes small prey such as insects and other invertebrates. It is largely nocturnal.
African Scops-Owl - The African Scops Owl has a distinctive "prrrp" call which occurs around every 5 seconds:
Otus siaoensis - The Siau Scops Owl, Otus siaoensis is a critically endangered owl and may be extinct. They live on the island of Siau, north of Sulawesi, Indonesia and are forest dwellers. The species is only known from a single holotype from 1866 although there have been some local reports in recent years. Even so their population is being devastated by loss of habitat due to excessive logging of the forest on the island and there would be very few if any individuals left.
Wallace's Scops Owl - http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Otus&species=silvicola
Serendib Scops-owl - It is the first new bird to be discovered in Sri Lanka since 1868, when the Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush Myophonus blighi was discovered. It is also the 24th endemic bird species for Sri Lanka.
Simeulue Scops-Owl - The Simeulue Scops Owl is an owl endemic to the island of Simeulue, Indonesia.