Order: Strigiformes | Family: Strigidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Loreto, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Eastern Ecuador
Age: Adult & Juveniles | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Eastern Colombia
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Loreto, Peru
Status: The Spectacled Owl is uncommon in the interior forest of Amazonia ranging at elevations of up to 1150 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in the semi-deciduous forests of Tumbes below 900 m meters.
Name in Spanish: Búho de Anteojos.
Sub-species: Spectacled Owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata chapmani), Griscom, 1932. W Colombia, W Ecuador and NW Peru.
(P. p. perspicillata), Latham, 1790. Amazonian Brazil, and from E Colombia S to N Bolivia.
Meaning of Name: Pulsatrix: L. pulsatrix= beater, pusher, attacker. perspicillata: L. perspicillatum, perspicilatus= goggles, see through.

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 08/01/2015.