Scops Owl
by Peter Ogden
Title
Scops Owl
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Painting - Lithograph
Description
Thomas Powys, aka Lord Lilford, 4th Baron of Lilford, 1883-1896 was an aristocratic British ornithologist who traveled the world in search of rare birds and created a large portfolio of beautifully illustrated wild birds in their natural habitat. President of the British Ornithological Union (1867, 1896). Fellow of the Zoological Society.
Scops owls are typical owls (family Strigidae) mostly belonging to the genus Otus. Approximately 45 living species are known, but new ones are frequently recognized and unknown ones are still being discovered every few years or so, especially in Indonesia. For most of the 20th century, this genus included the American screech owls, which are now again separated in Megascops based on a range of behavioral, biogeographical, morphological and DNA sequence data. Otus is the largest genus of owls in terms of number of species.
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May 2nd, 2020
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