Pallid Scops Owl

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When to see the Pallid Scops Owl

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pallid Scops Owl

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan.

About the 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.

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Easily confused with

Ryukyu Scops OwlOtus elegansThe Ryukyu scops owl or elegant scops owl is a small rufous-brown owl with a brown face disk and a cinnamon facial ruff. Madagascar Scops OwlOtus rutilusThe Madagascar scops owl is a relatively small owl with short, rounded wings and short erectile ear-tufts on top of the head. Moluccan Scops OwlOtus magicusThe Moluccan scops owl is an owl found in the Maluku and Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia.