Ryūkyū scops owl
The Ryūkyū scops-owl or elegant scops-owl is a small rufous-brown owl with a brown face disk and a cinnamon facial ruff. The bill is olive-grey and it has yellow eyes.It is found on the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan, on Lanyu Island off south-east Taiwan, and on the Batanes and Babuyan Islands off northern Luzon, Philippines, in tropical or subtropical evergreen forest. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.Subspecies
- O. e. elegans
- O. e. calayensis McGregor, 1904
- O. e. interpositus Kuroda, 1923
- O. e. botelensis Kuroda, 1928 - Lanyu Scops Owl
