Species profile
Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl
Megascops watsonii
Quick answer
corujinha-das-guianas (Portuguese) Ephialtes watsonii Cassin, 1848 (lectotypes at ANSP examined) Otus watsonii (Cassin, 1848): Cory (1918; part: specimens east of the Negro and Amazon rivers including southern Venezuela, northern Brazil, Guiana, Surinam, and French Guiana).
- Scientific name
- Megascops watsonii
- Family
- Strigidae
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Genus
- Megascops
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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