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Collared Scops Owl
Otus lettia · Family Strigidae
Otus lettia
Family Strigidae
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 63,699
- Countries and territories with records
- 18
About this species
This species has 63,699 occurrence records from 18 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (65.7%), Thailand (8.9%), India (8.3%), China (3.3%) and Singapore (3%); together they account for 89.2% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.2% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Otus lettia combines the genus name Otus with the species epithet lettia. The Warbla app catalog lists 52 species of the genus Otus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Otus spilocephalus, Otus scops and Otus bakkamoena.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 217 species of the family Strigidae. This species ranks 32nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Bubo virginianus. Its record count is 1.2 times the family average (52,528). The family Strigidae belongs to the order Strigiformes, which has 233 species in the Warbla app catalog.