Common Names of Owls of the World

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African Barred Owlet - Glaucidium capense
African Marsh Owl - Asio capensis
African Wood Owl - Strix (Ciccaba) woodfordii
Albertine Owlet - Glaucidium albertinum
Asian Barred Owlet - Glaucidium cuculoides
Asian Bay Owl - Phodilus badius

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Band-bellied Owl - Pulsatrix melanota
Bare-legged Owl - Gymnoglaux lawrencii (Otus lawrencii)
Barking Owl - Ninox connivens
Barred Jungle Owlet - Glaucidium radiatum
Barred Owl - Strix varia
Barred Owl, Guatemala - Strix fulvescens
Barred Owlet, African - Glaucidium capense
Barred Owlet, Asian - Glaucidium cuculoides

Barn Owl - Tyto alba
Barn Owl, Andaman - Tyto deroepstorffi
Barn Owl, Ashy-faced - Tyto glaucops
Barn Owl, Celebes - Tyto rosenbergii
Barn Owl, Hispaniolan - Tyto glaucops
Barn Owl, Minahassa - Tyto inexspectata
Barn Owl, New Britain - Tyto aurantia

Bay Owl, African - Tyto prigoginei (Phodilus prigoginei)
Bay Owl, Asian - Phodilus badius
Bay Owl, Congo - Tyto prigoginei (Phodilus prigoginei)

Black and White Owl - Strix (Ciccaba) nigrolineata
Black-banded Owl - Strix (Ciccaba) huhula
Blewitt's Owl - Athene blewitti (Heteroglaux blewitti)

Boobook Owl - Ninox boobook (novaeseelandiae)
Boobook Owl, New Zealand - Ninox novaeseelandiae
Boobook Owl, Sumba - Ninox rudolfi

Boreal Owl - Aegolius funereus
Brazilian Owl - Strix hylophila
Brown Owl - Ninox theomacha
Buff-fronted Owl - Aegolius harrisii
Burrowing Owl - Athene cunicularia (formerly Speotyto cunicularia)

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Chaco Owl - Strix chacoensis
Chesnut Owlet - Glaucidium castaneum
Chesnut-backed Owlet - Glaucidium castanonotum
Chesnut-winged Owlet - Glaucidium castanopterum
Cinnabar Hawk Owl - Ninox ios
Collared Owlet - Glaucidium brodiei
Cuckoo Owlet - Glaucidium cuculoides
Crested Owl - Lophostrix cristata

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Eagle Owl, African - Bubo africanus
Eagle Owl, Akun - Bubo leucostictus
Eagle Owl, Bared - Bubo sumatrana (Bubo sumatranus)
Eagle Owl, Bengal - Bubo bengalensis
Eagle Owl, Cape - Bubo capensis
Eagle Owl, Desert - Bubo ascalaphus
Eagle Owl, Dusky - Bubo coromandus
Eagle Owl, Eurasian - Bubo bubo
Eagle Owl, Forest - Bubo nipalensis
Eagle Owl, Fraser's - Bubo poensis
Eagle Owl, Indian - Bubo bengalensis
Eagle Owl, Lesser - Mimizuku gurneyi (Otus gurneyi)
Eagle Owl, Malay - Bubo sumatrana (Bubo sumatranus)
Eagle Owl, Milky - Bubo lacteus
Eagle Owl, Nduk - Bubo poensis
Eagle Owl, Oriental - Bubo sumatrana (Bubo sumatranus)
Eagle Owl, Pharaoh - Bubo ascalaphus
Eagle Owl, Philippine - Bubo philippensis
Eagle Owl, Rock - Bubo bengalensis
Eagle Owl, Shelley's - Bubo shelleyi
Eagle Owl, Sooty - Bubo leucostictus
Eagle Owl, Spot-bellied - Bubo nipalensis
Eagle Owl, Spotted - Bubo africanus
Eagle Owl, Usambara - Bubo poensis
Eagle Owl, Vermiculated - Bubo cinerascens
Eagle Owl, Verreaux's - Bubo lacteus

Elf Owl - Micrathene whitneyi

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Fearful Owl - Nesasio solomonensis

Fish Owl, Blakiston's - Ketupa blakistoni
Fish Owl, Brown - Ketupa zeylonensis
Fish Owl, Buffy - Ketupa ketupa
Fish Owl, Malay - Ketupa ketupa
Fish Owl, Tawny - Ketupa flavipes

Fishing Owl, Pel's - Scotopelia peli
Fishing Owl, Rufous - Scotopelia ussheri
Fishing Owl, Vermiculated - Scotopelia bouvieri

Flammulated Owl - Otus flammeolus
Forest Spotted Owlet - Athene blewitti (Heteroglaux blewitti)
Fulvous Owl - Strix fulvescens

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Giant Eagle Owl - Bubo lacteus

Grass Owl, African - Tyto capensis
Grass Owl, Common - Tyto capensis
Grass Owl, Eastern - Tyto longimembris
Grass Owl, Madagascar - Tyto soumagnei
Grass Owl, Soumagnes - Tyto soumagnei

Great Gray Owl - Strix nebulosa
Great Hawk Owl - Ninox strenua
Great Horned Owl - Bubo virginianus
Guatemala Barred Owl - Strix fulvescens

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Hawk Owl, Admiralty Islands - Ninox meeki
Hawk Owl, Andaman - Ninox affinis
Hawk Owl, Bismarck - Ninox variegata (Ninox solomonis)
Hawk Owl, Brown - Ninox scutulata
Hawk Owl, Chesnut - Ninox theomacha
Hawk Owl, Christmas Island - Ninox natalis
Hawk Owl, Great - Ninox strenua
Hawk Owl, Indonesian - Ninox squampilia
Hawk Owl, Jungle - Ninox theomacha
Hawk Owl, Little Sumba - Ninox sumbaensis
Hawk Owl, Madagascar - Ninox superciliaris
Hawk Owl, Manus - Ninox meeki
Hawk Owl, Mindoro - Ninox mindorensis (Ninox plateni)
Hawk Owl, Moluccan - Ninox squampilia
Hawk Owl, New Britain - Ninox odiosa
Hawk Owl, New Guinea - Uroglaux dimorpha
Hawk Owl, New Ireland - Ninox variegata (Ninox solomonis)
Hawk Owl, Northern - Surnia ulula (Strix ulula)
Hawk Owl, Ochre-bellied - Ninox ochracea (Ninox perversa)
Hawk Owl, Oriental - Ninox scutulata
Hawk Owl, Papuan - Uroglaux dimorpha
Hawk Owl, Philippine - Ninox philippensis
Hawk Owl, Russet - Ninox odiosa
Hawk Owl, Solomon Islands - Ninox jacquinota
Hawk Owl, Sooty-backed - Ninox theomacha
Hawk Owl, Speckled - Ninox punctulata
Hawk Owl, Spotted - Ninox boobook (novaeseelandiae)
Hawk Owl, White-browed - Ninox superciliaris

Hume's Owl - Strix butleri

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Itombwe Owl - Tyto prigoginei (Phodilus prigoginei)

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Jamaican Owl - Pseudoscops grammicus
Javan Owlet - Glaucidium castanopterum
Jungle Owlet - Glaucidium radiatum

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Lapland Owl - Strix nebulosa
Lapp Owl - Strix nebulosa
Laughing Owl - Sceloglaux albifacies
Lesser Sooty Owl - Tyto multipunctata
Little Owl - Athene noctua

Long-eared Owl - Asio otus
Long-eared Owl, Abyssinian - Asio abyssinicus
Long-eared Owl, Madagascar - Asio madagascariensis

Long-whiskered Owlet - Xenoglaux loweryi

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Madagascar Red Owl - Tyto soumagnei
Magellan Horned Owl - Bubo magellanicus
Maned Owl - Jubula lettii
Marsh Owl, African - Asio capensis

Masked Owl, Andaman - Tyto deroepstorffi
Masked Owl, Australian - Tyto novaehollandiae
Masked Owl, Lesser - Tyto sororcula
Masked Owl, Manus - Tyto manusi
Masked Owl, Minahassa - Tyto inexspectata
Masked Owl, New Britain - Tyto aurantia
Masked Owl, Sula Island- Tyto nigrobrunnea
Masked Owl, Sulawesi - Tyto rosenbergii
Masked Owl, Taliabu - Tyto nigrobrunnea
Masked Owl, Tasmanian - Tyto castanops

Mindanao Owl - Mimizuku gurneyi (Otus gurneyi)
Montane Forest Owl - Otus hoyi
Morepork - Ninox novaeseelandiae
Mottled Owl - Strix (Ciccaba) virgata

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New Guinea Hawk Owl - Uroglaux dimorpha
New Zealand Boobook Owl - Ninox novaeseelandiae
Northern Hawk Owl - Surnia ulula (Strix ulula)
Northern Saw-whet Owl - Aegolius acadius

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Papuan Hawk Owl - Uroglaux dimorpha
Pearl-spotted Owlet - Glaucidium perlatum
Powerful Owl - Ninox strenua

Prigogine's Owlet - Glaucidium albertinum
Pygmy Owl, Amazonian - Glaucidium hardyi
Pygmy Owl, Andean - Glaucidium jardinii
Pygmy Owl, Austral - Glaucidium nanum
Pygmy Owl, Cape - Glaucidium hoskinsii
Pygmy Owl, Central American - Glaucidium griseiceps
Pygmy Owl, Chaco - Glaucidium tucumanum
Pygmy Owl, Cloud Forest - Glaucidium nubicola
Pygmy Owl, Colima - Glaucidium palmarum
Pygmy Owl, Collared - Glaucidium brodiei
Pygmy Owl, Cuban - Glaucidium siju
Pygmy Owl, Eurasian - Glaucidium passerinum
Pygmy Owl, Ferruginous - Glaucidium brasilianum
Pygmy Owl, Least - Glaucidium minutissimum
Pygmy Owl, Mountain - Glaucidium gnoma
Pygmy Owl, Northern - Glaucidium californicum (formerly gnoma)
Pygmy Owl, Peruvian - Glaucidium peruanum
Pygmy Owl, Ridgway's - Glaucidium ridgwayi
Pygmy Owl, Subtropical - Glaucidium parkeri
Pygmy Owl, Tamaulipas - Glaucidium sanchezi
Pygmy Owl, Yungas - Glaucidium bolivianum

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Red Owl, Madagascar - Tyto soumagnei
Red-chested Owlet - Glaucidium tephronotum
Rufous-banded Owl - Strix (Ciccaba) albitarsus (albitarsis)
Rufous-legged Owl - Strix rufipes
Rufous Owl - Ninox rufa
Rusty-barred Owl - Strix hylophila

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Saw-whet Owl, Northern - Aegolius acadius
Saw-whet Owl, Unspotted - Aegolius ridgwayi

Scops Owl, African - Otus senegalensis
Scops Owl, Andaman - Otus balli
Scops Owl, Anjouan - Otus capnodes
Scops Owl, Bare-legged - Otus insularis
Scops Owl, Beccari - Otus beccarii
Scops Owl, Biak island - Otus beccarii
Scops Owl, Bruce's - Otus brucei
Scops Owl, Celebes - Otus manadensis
Scops Owl, Cinnamon - Otus icterorhynchus
Scops Owl, Collared - Otus lettia
Scops Owl, Common - Otus scops
Scops Owl, Elegant - Otus elegans
Scops Owl, Enggano - Otus enganensis
Scops Owl, Eurasian - Otus scops
Scops Owl, Flores - Otus alfredi
Scops Owl, Giant - Mimizuku gurneyi (Otus gurneyi)
Scops Owl, Grand Comoro - Otus pauliani
Scops Owl, Indian - Otus bakkamoena
Scops Owl, Japanese - Otus semitorques
Scops Owl, Javan - Otus angelinae
Scops Owl, Lesser Sunda - Otus silvicola
Scops Owl, Luzon - Otus longicornis
Scops Owl, Madagascar - Otus rutilus
Scops Owl, Magic - Otus manadensis
Scops Owl, Malagasy - Otus rutilus
Scops Owl, Mantanani - Otus mantananensis
Scops Owl, Mentawai - Otus mentawi
Scops Owl, Mentaur - Otus umbra
Scops Owl, Mindanao - Otus mirus
Scops Owl, Mindoro - Otus mindorensis
Scops Owl, Mohéli - Otus moheliensis
Scops Owl, Moluccan - Otus magicus
Scops Owl, Mountain - Otus spilocephalus
Scops Owl, Nicobar - Otus alius
Scops Owl, Oriental - Otus sunia
Scops Owl, Palau - Otus podarginus (Pyrroglaux podargina)
Scops Owl, Palawan - Otus fuliginosus
Scops Owl, Pallid - Otus brucei
Scops Owl, Pemba - Otus pembaensis
Scops Owl, Philipine - Otus megalotis
Scops Owl, Rajah's - Otus brookii
Scops Owl, Reddish - Otus rufescens
Scops Owl, Rufous - Otus rufescens
Scops Owl, Ryukyu - Otus elegans
Scops Owl, Sandy - Otus icterorhynchus
Scops Owl, Sangihe - Otus collari
Scops Owl, São Thomé - Otus hartlaubi
Scops Owl, Simeulue - Otus umbra
Scops Owl, Sokoke - Otus ireneae
Scops Owl, Seychelles - Otus insularis
Scops Owl, Spotted - Otus spilocephalus
Scops Owl, Striated - Otus brucei
Scops Owl, Sulawesi - Otus manadensis
Scops Owl, Sunda (formerly grouped with Collared Scops) - Otus lempiji
Scops Owl, Wallace's - Otus silvicola
Scops Owl, White-faced (Northern) - Otus leucotis (Ptilopsis leucotis)
Scops Owl, White-faced (Southern) - Otus granti (Ptilopsis granti) (formerly subspecies of above)
Scops Owl, White-fronted - Otus sagittatus
Scops Owl, Whitehead's - Otus megalotis

Screech Owl, Balsas - Otus seductus
Screech Owl, Bare-shanked - Otus clarkii
Screech Owl, Bearded - Otus barbarus
Screech Owl, Black-capped - Otus atricapillus (atricapilla)
Screech Owl, Bridled - Otus barbarus
Screech Owl, Cinnamon - Otus petersoni
Screech Owl, Cloud Forest - Otus marshalli
Screech Owl, Colombian - Otus colombianus
Screech Owl, Cuban - Gymnoglaux lawrencii (Otus lawrencii)
Screech Owl, Dark-crowned - Otus roboratus
Screech Owl, Eastern - Otus asio
Screech Owl, Guatemalan - Otus guatemalae
Screech Owl, Long-tufted - Otus sanctaecatarina
Screech Owl, Maria Koepcke's - Otus koepckeae
Screech Owl, Montane Forest - Otus hoyi
Screech Owl, Oaxaca - Otus lambi
Screech Owl, Pacific - Otus cooperi
Screech Owl, Peruvian - Otus roboratus
Screech Owl, Puerto Rican - Otus nudipes
Screech Owl, Rio Napo - Otus napensis
Screech Owl, Roraima - Otus roraimae
Screech Owl, Rufescent - Otus ingens
Screech Owl, Spotted - Otus trichopsis
Screech Owl, Tawny-bellied (Northern) - Otus watsonii
Screech Owl, Tawny-bellied (Southern) - Otus usta
Screech Owl, Tropical - Otus choliba
Screech Owl, Vermiculated - Otus vermiculatus
Screech Owl, Western - Otus kennicottii
Screech Owl, Whiskered - Otus trichopsis
Screech Owl, White-throated - Otus albogularis

Short-browed Owl - Pulsatrix pulsatrix
Short-eared Owl - Asio flammeus
Sjöstedt's Owlet - Glaucidium sjöstedti
Snowy Owl - Nyctea scandiaca

Sooty Owl - Tyto tenebricosa
Sooty Owl, Lesser - Tyto multipunctata

Spadiced Owlet - Glaucidium castanopterum
Spectacled Owl - Pulsatrix perspicillata
Splendid Owlet - Glaucidium sjöstedti
Spotted Owl - Strix occidentalis
Spotted Hawk Owl - Ninox boobook (novaeseelandiae)
Spotted Little Owl - Athene brama
Spotted Owlet - Athene brama
Striped Owl - Asio clamator (formerly Rhinoptynx clamator)
Stygian Owl - Asio stygius

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Tawny-browed Owl - Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana
Tawny Owl, Eurasian - Strix aluco
Tawny Owl, Hume's - Strix butleri
Tengmalm's Owl - Aegolius funereus

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Unspotted Saw-whet Owl - Aegolius ridgwayi
Ural Owl - Strix uralensis

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White-browed Owl - Ninox superciliaris
White-chinned Owl - Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana
White-faced Owl - Sceloglaux albifacies
Winking Owl - Ninox connivens

Wood Owl, African - Strix (Ciccaba) woodfordii
Wood Owl, Bartels' - Strix bartelsi
Wood Owl, Brown - Strix leptogrammica
Wood Owl, David's - Strix davidi
Wood Owl, Himalayan - Strix newarensis
Wood Owl, Mottled - Strix ocellata
Wood Owl, Sichuan - Strix davidi
Wood Owl, Spotted - Strix seloputo

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