SPOTTED WOOD-OWL


The 'Spotted Wood-owl' (''Strix seloputo'') is an owl of the earless owl genus, ''Strix''. Its range is strangely disjunct; it occurs in many regions surrounding Borneo, but not on that island itself.
The three subspecies are:

★ ''Strix seloputo seloputo'' - S Myanmar and central Thailand to Singapore. Also Jambi (Sumatra) and Java.

★ ''Strix seloputo baweana'' - Endemic to Bawean Island off N Java

★ ''Strix seloputo wiepkini'' - Calamian Islands and Palawan (Philippines)

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★ Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

★ (1999): 94. Spotted Wood-owl. ''In:'' : ''Handbook of Birds of the World, Volume 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds'': 197, plate 12. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-25-3

★ (1999): ''Owls: A guide to the owls of the world.'' Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 0300079206

★ (2005): OwlPages.com Owl Species ID: 130.010.000 - Spotted Wood Owl - ''Strix seloputo''. Version of 2005-APR-21. Retrieved 2007-AUG-16.

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