Birds of Bolivia - Megascops


White-throated Screech Owl (Megascops albogularis) Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador
Photograph by Angus Pritchard © All Rights Reserved.


Tropical Screech Owl (Megascops choliba) ProAves Blue-billed Curassow Reserve, Puerto Pinzon, Boyaca, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Widespread and common, and best identified by black border to facial disk, and the rising final note in song.
A grey and a rufous owl at a typical roost site.
Daytime shot from back.


Yungas Screech Owl (Megascops hoyi) San Lorenzo, Salta, Argentina
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Rufescent Screech Owl (Megascops ingens) Manu, Peru
Photograph by Joel N. Rosenthal © All Rights Reserved.

In IOC 9.1 the dark-eyed and less rufous Colombian Screech Owl was merged with this species. Found locally around 1500m. Not too vocal. Rufescent.

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Cloud-forest Screech Owl (Megascops marshalli) Near Threatened


Foothill Screech Owl (Megascops roraimae napensis) Reserva Natural La Isla Escondida, Orito, Putumayo, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Tawny-bellied Screech Owl (Megascops watsonii usta) Madre de Dios, Peru Brown morph.
Photograph by Bruno Conjeaud © All Rights Reserved.


Tawny-bellied Screech Owl (Megascops watsonii watsonii) Surama, Guyana
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.

Note dark border to facial disk similar to Tropical Screech Owl, but note tawny chest and orange (not yellow) eyes. The subspecies south of the Amazon is darker and has a brown and rufous morph (HBW).