Order: Strigiformes | Family: Strigidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Loreto, Peru
Status: The Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl is common in Amazonia and seems not to range higher than 700 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Lechuza de Vientre Leonado.
Sub-species: Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl (Megascops watsonii watsonii) (Cassin), 1849. Lowlands from E Colombia S to NE Peru (N of Amazon River ) to Amazonian Brazil.
(M, w. usta) (P. L. Sclater), 1858. Estern Peru and S Amazonian Brazil S to lowland forest of N Bolivia and N Mato Grosso.
Meaning of Name: Megascops: Gr. Megas, megale= large, great and scops= an owl. In reference of Old World generally eared owls watsonii: In honor of Dr. Gavin Watson (1796-1858), physician and zoologist of the United States.

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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.