Serendib Scops Owl

Serendib Scops Owl
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11/02/2016
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PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON #623... OBSERVE THE BIRD AND RECOGNIZE...A Bird from Sri Lanka ..SERENDIB SCOPS OWL... WATERCOLOUR...A4.. 2016...[From the photograph of Mr.@Sabu Kinattukara ... The Serendib scops owl (Otus thilohoffmanni) is the most recently discovered bird of Sri Lanka. It was originally located by its unfamiliar poo-ooo call in the Kitulgala rainforest by prominent Sri Lankan ornithologist Deepal Warakagoda. Six years later, it was finally seen by him on 23 January 2001 in Sinharaja, and formally described as a species new to science in 2004. The habitat of the Serendib scops owl is in the southern rain forests of Sri Lanka. There is an altitudinal range from 30 to 50 metres. This owl has no competition from other nocturnal birds, the territories are completely different. This species has a very small population, at the end of January 2006 only 80 of them were known to exist. The places that it is expected to be found are in five protected areas, like the Forest Reserve

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