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Article: Vocalizations, distribution, and ecology of the cloud-forest screech owl (Megascops marshalli).(Report)
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- The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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The Cloud-forest Screech Owl (Megascops marshalli) is one of the most poorly known owls in South America and worldwide. It is currently listed as Near Threatened under IUCN Red List criteria (BirdLife International 2008) and considered to be endemic to Peru. It occurs in mossy cloud forest, where it is apparently confined to a narrow altitudinal range of ~1,900-2,250 m (Weske and Terborgh 1981, Schulenberg et al. 1984, Fjeldsa and Krabbe 1990). The species was described quite recently (Weske and Terborgh 1981) based on eight specimens from Cordillera Vilcabamba in central Peru (12[degrees] 38' S, 73[degrees] 36' W). An additional bird was collected in 1982 in Cordillera ...
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Article: The elusive screech owl is but a bird of wonder
Daily Record, The Wooster, OH;
December 24, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... Again and again I heard the call of a screech owl coming from the woods nearby. Screech ... I had heard -- but not seen -- a screech owl. Only the saw-whet owl is smaller than the screech owl and screech owls are much more common ...
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