{"id":2052871,"date":"2018-10-05T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=e5d015392b4365bf5faf9834d18fb8c5"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:35:30","slug":"arabian-scops-owl-tanoumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/arabian-scops-owl-tanoumah\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabian Scops Owl \u2013 Tanoumah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birdwatching the Tanoumah area in summer 2018 I managed to hear a number of Arabian Scops Owls Otus pamelae and photograph one. The Arabian Scops Owl has recently been split as a distinct species from African Scops Owl O. s. senegalensis. Recent work (Pons et al 2013) has shown African Scops Owl, represents a very distinct lineage and is well differentiated phylogenetically, morphologically and vocally fromO. s. senegalensis.<\/p>\n

As a result it has been recommend to elevate it to species status, as Arabian Scops Owl Otus pamelae. The reasons for this are this southern Arabian taxon is highly divergent from African senegalensis (uncorrected-p mitochondrial genetic distance = 4%). The song of pamelaeis very different from that of Eurasian Scops Owl O. scopsand Pallid Scops Owl O. brucei but more similar to that of African Scops Owl O. senegalensis. It nevertheless differs from the latter\u2019s song in being higher pitched, sounding \u2018scratchier\u2019 and having more prolonged notes; the song sounds two-parted, due to the much quieter first note.<\/p>\n

In terms of biometrics, results clearly suggest that pamelaeis longer winged and longer legged than mainland African populations of senegalensis. In comparison with populations of O. senegalens is in continental Africa, Arabian pamelaeis distinguished in being paler overall, with less distinct streaking over the underparts and a less obvious whitish line on the scapulars. Arabian Scops Owls possess several diagnostic genetic and phenotypic characters and it is therefore consider the most appropriate taxonomic treatment is to recognize Arabian Scops Owl as a species and not as a subspecies of O. senegalensisas it was originally described based solely on morphological data.<\/p>\n

This change means that Arabian Scops Owl becomes a new Arabian endemic, found in South-west Saudi Arabia, South-west Yemen and north-east to southern Oman and African Scops Owl is now no longer found in Arabia but instead occurs in parts of Ethiopia, Eritrea & Somalia.<\/p>\n

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Arabian Scops Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Arabian Scops Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Arabian Scops Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birdwatching the Tanoumah area in summer 2018 I managed to hear a number of Arabian Scops Owls Otus pamelae and photograph one. The Arabian Scops Owl has recently been split as a distinct species from African Scops Owl O. s. senegalensis. Recent work (Pons et al 2013) has shown African Scops Owl, represents a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2149055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[5412,8353,40,5824,3108],"class_list":["post-2052871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-african-scops-owl","tag-arabian-scops-owl","tag-ethiopia","tag-eurasian-scops-owl","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}