| Pacific screech owl | |
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| Pacific Screech Owl, Costa Rica, January 2018 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Strigiformes |
| Family: | Strigidae |
| Genus: | Megascops |
| Species: | M. cooperi |
| Binomial name | |
| Megascops cooperi (Ridgway, 1878) | |
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| Synonyms | |
| Otus cooperi (Ridgway, 1878) | |
The Pacific screech owl (Megascops cooperi) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, and heavily degraded former forest.[1]
Diet
It is strictly nocturnal, preying mostly on large insects (such as moths, beetles, scorpions) along with the occasional small rodent.
References
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2012). "Megascops cooperi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
- Pacific Screech Owl videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- RangeMaps & synopsis InfoNatura NatureServe
- Photo; Article
- Pacific Screech Owl videos on the Internet Bird Collection can eat small animals such as foxes and even badgers ETC.
- Pacific Screech-Owl in Nicaragua