Southern White-faced Owl

Ptilopsis granti (Kollibay, 1910)

Southern White-faced Owl, Ptilopsis granti, is an owl of savanna and dry woodland across Africa, from Gabon to southern Uganda and south-eastern Kenya, and south to Namibia and South Africa. It is found patchily through western, central and southern parts of the continent, and is more regularly encountered in places such as Uganda, southern Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini and the north of South Africa. It is a fairly small member of Strigidae, with a white face edged in black and two short ear-tufts tipped black.

Order

Strigiformes

Family

Strigidae — Owls

Breeding range

Africa: Gabon to s Uganda and sw Kenya, s to Namibia and South Africa