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Santa Marta Screech-owl

Megascops gilesi

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Strigidae

The Santa Marta screech owl (Megascops gilesi) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found only in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Colombia. Taxonomy and systematics The Santa Marta screech owl was formally described in 2017, though a specimen collected in 1919 was thought at the time to perhaps be a "distinct form".

Distribution

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