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Nuco, Short-eared Owl, Asio flammeus.
Camino al Seno Otway.
Punta Arenas.
Region de Magallanes, Chile.
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English Short-eared Owl
Scientific (Asio flammeus suinda)
Order STRIGIFORMES
Family (Latin) Strigidae
Family (English) Owls
Other name(s) Hibou des marais
Breeding Regions Worldwide
Breeding Range Subregions widespread except AU
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Argentina,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Belarus, Belgium,Bhutan,Bolivia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Brazil,Bulgaria,Canada,Chad,Chile,China, Colombia,Croatia,Cuba,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Denmark,Djibouti,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland, Egypt,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,Georgia,Germany,Greece, Guam,Guinea,Guyana,Haiti,Hungary,Iceland,India - mainland,Iran,Iraq,Ireland, Israel,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia, Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Malaysia,Maldives,Mali,Malta,Marshall Islands, Mauritania,Mexico,Micronesia,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Myanmar,Nepal,Netherlands,Niger, Nigeria,North Korea,Northern Mariana Islands,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine,Paraguay,Peru,Philippines, Poland,Portugal,Puerto Rico,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Singapore, Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland, Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Thailand,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine, United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States - Alaska,United States - Hawaii,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Uzbekistan,Vietnam,Yemen,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
flammeus North America, Europe, n Africa and n Asia
sandwichensis Hawaiian Is.
sanfordi Falkland Is.
suinda s Peru and s Brazil to Tierra del Fuego
pallidicaudus Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname
galapagoensis Galápagos
bogotensis Colombia, Ecuador and nw Peru
portoricensis Puerto Rico
domingensis Hispaniola
cubensis Cuba
ponapensis e Caroline Is.
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Pontoppidan, 1763)
German Sumpfohreule
French Hibou des marais
Chinese 短耳鸮
Japanese コミミズク
Russian Болотная сова
Spanish Búho campestre
Portuguese coruja-do-nabal
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)