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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.
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The Serendib Scops-owl is classified as Endangered (EN), considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.
The Serendib Scops-Owl (Otus thilohoffmanni) is a small, short-tailed scops-owl. This bird lacks apparent ear-tufts and has a weakly-defined facial disk. Small, rufous, and earless, the Serendib Scops Owl is quite unlike any other owl in Sri Lanka or anywhere else in the Indian subcontintent. Its closest relative is the Reddish Scops Owl (Otus rufescens) which ranges from Thailand to Indonesia. More
Images Serendib scops-owl perched on branch The astonishing discovery of this tiny owl in 2001 in the southern rain forests of Sri Lanka stunned biologists around the world, representing the first new bird species to be identified in the country since 1868. Ornithologist Deepal Warakagoda ... More
Serendib scops-owl perched on branch Serendib scops-owl perched on branchPrint factsheet Facts - Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Aves Order Strigiformes Family Strigidae Genus Otus (1) Size Height (crown to tail tip): c. More
Chandima Kahandawala The Serendib Scops-owl is the first new bird species to be discovered on Sri Lanka since 1868 Zoom In Serendipitous species discovery in Sri Lanka = 01-07-2004 "It is most improbable that a bird entirely new to science could now exist in Ceylon," a foremost authority on Sri Lankan birdlife wrote in 1951. More
Serendib Scops-owl (Otus thilohoffmanni) is the first new bird species to be discovered in Sri Lanka since 1868, the BirdLife International said. "Serendib Scops-owl is a small, short-tailed, rather uniformly rufescent scops-owl with eye colour ranging from yellow to orange, according to sex, lacking apparent ear-tufts, with a weakly-defined facial disk, and with weak tarsi feathered for less than half their length. Among Sri Lankan species, O. More
Family : Strigidae
Genus : Otus
Species : thilohoffmanni
Authority : Warakagoda & Rasmussen, 2004