The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...

A Philippine Scops Owl was found on the road by a resident of Paoay, Ilocos Norte. The owl was struggling to fly and move, and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Laoag was ...

The bird is now officially known as the Principe Scops-Owl, or Otus bikegila. "Otus" is the generic name given to a group of small owls sharing a common history, commonly called scops-owls.