The bird is now officially known as the Principe Scops-Owl, or Otus bikegila. "Otus" is the generic name given to a group of small owls sharing a common history, commonly called scops-owls.

Brown Wood-owl Strix leptogrammica, Collared Owlet Glaucidium brodiei, Collared Scops-owl Otus bakkamoena, Dusky Eagle Owl ...

A Philippine Scops Owl was found on the road by a resident of Paoay, Ilocos Norte. The owl was struggling to fly and move, and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Laoag was ...

Birdwatchers call the little fella in the photo the scops owl, but pilots call him “foreign object debris” (FOD) because he’s resting inside the wheel well of a fighter jet. If the owl were ...