Northern White-faced Owl

Ptilopsis leucotis (Temminck, 1820)

Northern White-faced Owl, Ptilopsis leucotis, is an owl in the family Strigidae found across Africa from Senegal and Gambia to Somalia, with its range also reaching northern DR Congo, Uganda and central Kenya. It was described by Temminck in 1820. It was once treated together with the southern white-faced owl, and the pair were known as the white-faced scops-owl. Its range forms a broad belt across the continent between the Sahara and the Equator, with records from countries including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Togo.

Order

Strigiformes

Family

Strigidae — Owls

Breeding range

Africa: Senegal and Gambia to Somalia, s to n DR Congo, Uganda and c Kenya