Tag Archives: Siau

Otus siaoensis (Schlegel)

Siau Scops Owl (Otus siaoensis)

The Siau Scops Owl is a highly threatened, very likely already extinct owl species that was endemic to the island of Siau north of Sulawesi, Indonesia; it is known only from the type specimen that had been collected in 1866.

The species reached a size of 17 cm.

The Siau Scops Owl is closely related to the Sulawesi Scops Owl (Otus manadensis (Quoy & Gaimard)) (see photo below) and was for some time considered a subspecies of it but is now regarded as a distinct species.

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Sulawesi Scops Owl (Otus manadensis)

Photo: A. S. Kono

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edited: 02.05.2022

Eos histrio ssp. histrio (Statius Müller)

Red-and-blue Lory (Eos histrio ssp. histrio)

The Red-and-blue Lory is divided into two respectively three (if accepted) subspecies, two of which being extinct now.

The nominate was restricted to some of the Sangihe Islands, Indonesia, it reached a size of about 31 cm, it was bright red with several bright blue patches.

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Depiction from: ‘G. D. Rowley: Domicella coccinea (Latham). Ornithological miscellany 3: 123-129. 1878’ 

(public domain)

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edited: 21.02.2020