Indian scops owl
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Indian scops owls have a pale collar-like marking around the neck.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Indian scops owl
- Scientific name
- Otus bakkamoena
- Japanese name
- インドオオコノハズク
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae
- Genus
- Otus
How the Indian scops owl lives
They are active at night. They mainly eat insects, including grasshoppers, moths and butterflies. Around villages, they live among leafy trees in gardens and mango orchards.
The Owls TrustBasic data
- Range
- India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere
Where the Indian scops owl has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- インドオオコノハズク
- 简体中文
- 领角鸮
- 繁體中文
- 領角鴞
- 한국어
- 큰소쩍새
- Español
- Autillo indio
- Français
- Petit-duc indien
- Deutsch
- Indien-Zwergohreule
- Português (Brasil)
- Mocho-d'orelhas-indiano
- Italiano
- Assiolo indiano
- العربية
- ثبج هندي
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Celepuk reban
- Русский
- Ошейниковая совка
- বাংলা
- দেশী নিম প্যাঁচা
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — インドオオコノハズクChecked: 2026-11-04
- The Owls Trust — Indian Scops Owl FactsChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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