Brown Wood-owl

Order - Strigiformes
Family - Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Brown Wood-owl

Strix leptogrammica

褐林鸮 (hè lín-xiāo)

    Malay : Carik-Kafan Coklat

    Japanese : オオフフクロウ (ō fu fukurō)

    Kanji 日語漢字 : 大斑梟

    Size : 40–55 cm; 500–700 g (bartelsi)

    

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Strix leptogrammica newarensis (Hodgson, 1836) – Mountain Wood-owl
  – Himalayas, from Jammu and Kashmir E to NE India.
• Strix leptogrammica ticehursti (Delacour, 1930)
  – N & C Myanmar E to SE China (NE to Anhui), S to N & W Thailand, N Laos and N Vietnam.
• Strix leptogrammica caligata (Swinhoe, 1863)
  – Hainan and Taiwan.
• Strix leptogrammica laotiana (Delacour, 1926)
  – S Laos and C Vietnam (Annam).
• Strix leptogrammica indranee (Sykes, 1832)
  – Peninsular India.
• Strix leptogrammica ochrogenys (A. O. Hume, 1873)
  – Sri Lanka.
• Strix leptogrammica maingayi (A. O. Hume, 1878)
  – S Myanmar, S Thailand and Malay Peninsula.
• Strix leptogrammica myrtha (Bonaparte, 1850)
  – Sumatra; reported also (presumably this race) from Mentawai Is, off W Sumatra.
• Strix leptogrammica nyctiphasma (Oberholser, 1924)
  – Banyak Is, off W Sumatra.
• Strix leptogrammica chaseni (Hoogerwerf & de Boer, 1947)
  – Belitung I, off SE Sumatra.
• Strix leptogrammica vaga (Mayr, 1938)
  – N Borneo.
• Strix leptogrammica leptogrammica (Temminck, 1832) – Brown Wood-owl
  – C & S Borneo.
• Strix leptogrammica niasensis (Salvadori, 1887) – Nias Wood-owl
  – Nias I, off W Sumatra.
• Strix leptogrammica bartelsi (Finsch, 1906) – Bartels’s Wood-owl
  – Java.

Strix leptogrammica ssp. maingayi
Date : 30 April 2023

Location : Silverpark Resort, Fraser's Hill, Mukim Tras, Daerah Raub, Pahang

Strix leptogrammica ssp. maingayi
Date : 01 April 2016

Location : Fraser's Hill, Mukim Tras, Daerah Raub, Pahang