Wetar Scops Owl

When to see the Wetar Scops Owl

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 3 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Wetar Scops Owl

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Wetar Scops Owl

The Wetar scops owl is an owl endemic to Wetar of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. It was previously considered a subspecies of the Moluccan scops owl, but was split as a distinct species by the IUCN Red List and BirdLife International in 2014, and the International Ornithological Congress followed suit in 2022.

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Easily confused with

Javan Scops OwlOtus angelinaeThe average weight of this bird species is 75-90 grams with a body length of 160-180 mm. Flores Scops OwlOtus alfrediThe Flores scops owl is a small and compact owl. Rinjani Scops OwlOtus jolandaeThe Rinjani scops owl is a species of scops owl found only on Lombok in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia and its neighbouring Gili Islands.