Birds of Prey
Least Concern
Quick Facts
Dietinsect
Facts sourced from Wikidata (CC0).
Wallace's scops owl or lesser Sunda scops owl is endemic to the Sumbawa and Flores islands, in the Lesser Sundas chain of Indonesia. It is not rare in most of its habitat and has no subspecies except for the nominate. It is also known as the Lesser Sunda scops owl. It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and biologist.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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