Tours where you can spot this bird
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Pacific Screech Owl
Megascops cooperi (Ridgway, 1878)
Strigidae — Owls
Pacific Screech Owl, Megascops cooperi, is an owl of Middle America, breeding from southern Mexico to north-western Costa Rica. It belongs to the family Strigidae and was described by Ridgway in 1878. It has been treated at times as part of the western screech owl or the eastern screech owl, but its voice sets it apart from both. Two subspecies are recognised, the nominate Megascops cooperi cooperi and Megascops cooperi lambi, with the latter also sometimes regarded as a separate species.
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae — Owls
- Breeding range
- Middle America: s Mexico to nw Costa Rica
