Critically Endangered
Seychelles Scops Owl
Otus insularis
The Seychelles scops owl or Seychelles owl, also known as bare-legged scops owl or syer (in Creole) is a rare scops owl species, that only occurs in the Morne Seychellois National Park on the Seychelles island of Mahé.
Appearance
Its plumage is rufous brown and exhibits black shaft streaks. The underparts and the facial disc are rufous. The long grey legs are unfeathered.
It reaches a length of 19 to 21 cm. The wings are each about 17 cm long.
Range and habitat
The Seychelles scops owl or Seychelles owl, also known as bare-legged scops owl or syer (in Creole) is a rare scops owl species, that only occurs in the Morne Seychellois National Park on the Seychelles island of Mahé.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Seychelles Scops Owl is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Seychelles Scops Owl, Wikidata item Q258271. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
