Order
Strigiformes
Family
Strigidae
Genus
Megascops
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
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Puerto Rican Screech-Owl Megascops nudipes

Chloe Goodson
Version: 1.0 — Published January 24, 2014

References

Introduction

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Recommended Citation

Goodson, C. (2014). Puerto Rican Screech-Owl (Megascops nudipes), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.prsowl.01
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