Sri Lanka Bay Owl (Phodilus assimilis) | Photos, Calls and ID

LCLeast ConcernVertebrates

ForestCavity nestMedium · 280 g

Sri Lanka Bay Owl (Phodilus assimilis), photo 1 — Photo: Mickey Wu · CC BY 4.0

Sri Lanka Bay Owl (Phodilus assimilis), photo 2 — Photo: Mickey Wu · CC BY 4.0

Sri Lanka Bay Owl (Phodilus assimilis), photo 3 — Photo: renjus box · CC BY 4.0

Sri Lanka Bay Owl (Phodilus assimilis), photo 4 — Photo: renjus box · CC BY 4.0

Sri Lanka Bay Owl (Phodilus assimilis), photo 5 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

What the Sri Lanka Bay Owl sounds like

Sonogram of the Sri Lanka Bay Owl: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Mike Prince · Call · Inchathotty, Kerala, India · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Sri Lanka Bay Owl

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Sri Lanka Bay Owl

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

India Sri Lanka

About the Sri Lanka Bay Owl

The Sri Lanka bay owl is a species of bay owl in the family Tytonidae. It is endemic to the island of Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats in Kerala, South Western India. It was considered a subspecies of the Oriental bay owl but is now treated as a full species due to its distinctive call, plumage and disjunct distribution.

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Easily confused with

Oriental Bay OwlPhodilus badiusIndividuals are small, with distinguishing features such as highly angular heads.

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