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Mountain Scops Owl
Otus spilocephalus · Family Strigidae
Otus spilocephalus
Family Strigidae
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 577,309
- Countries and territories with records
- 16
About this species
This species has 577,309 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Taiwan accounts for 98% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 2.7% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Otus spilocephalus combines the genus name Otus with the species epithet spilocephalus. The Warbla app catalog lists 52 species of the genus Otus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Otus scops, Otus lettia and Otus bakkamoena.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 217 species of the family Strigidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Bubo virginianus. Its record count is 11 times the family average (52,528). The family Strigidae belongs to the order Strigiformes, which has 233 species in the Warbla app catalog.