Fulvous Owl Strix fulvescens
Version: 1.0 — Published November 7, 2014
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Czech | puštík guatemalský |
Dutch | Vale Bosuil |
English | Fulvous Owl |
English (United States) | Fulvous Owl |
French | Chouette fauve |
French (France) | Chouette fauve |
German | Gelbkauz |
Japanese | チャイロアメリカフクロウ |
Norwegian | mayaugle |
Polish | puszczyk płowy |
Russian | Бурая неясыть |
Serbian | Žuta sova |
Slovak | sova plavá |
Spanish | Cárabo Guatemalteco |
Spanish (Honduras) | Búho de Bosque Nublado |
Spanish (Mexico) | Búho Leonado |
Spanish (Spain) | Cárabo guatemalteco |
Swedish | mayauggla |
Turkish | Meksika Alaca Baykuşu |
Ukrainian | Сова чіяпська |
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Introduction
Fulvous Owl inhabits humid evergreen and pine-oak montane forests from southern Mexico to El Salvador and Honduras. Fulvous Owl nests in tree cavities and mainly consumes rodents and insects. Some authors have considered it to be a subspecies of Barred Owl (Strix varia). Like Barred Owl, Fulvous Owl is a large, dark-eyed owl that lacks ear tufts, has a yellow bill, is barred above and on the breast, and is streaked on the belly. Fulvous Owl is smaller than Barred Owl, however, and has a different pattern to its call, indicating that it merits recognition as a separate species. Although most Mexican records are from east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, new recordings of its short, Morse-code-like song from Oaxaca suggest that the species is also found west of the Isthmus.