Profile
In flight
Owls
Oriental Scops-Owl
Otus sunia
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
A scrap of bark with eyes, calling its three soft notes from the cool side of the night. You walk past one every summer and never know.
- Population
- widespread across South and East Asia, locally common but cryptic
- Habitat
- open woodland, mature gardens, parks, groves, plantations
- Diet
- moths, beetles, large insects, occasional small vertebrates
- Size
- 0.19 m
- Wingspan
- 0.5 m
