THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Strigidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Pacific Pygmy OwlGlaucidium peruanum C. König, 1991 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Jungle OwletGlaucidium radiatum (Tickell, 1833) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tamaulipas Pygmy OwlGlaucidium sanchezi Lowery & R. J. Newman, 1949 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cuban Pygmy OwlGlaucidium siju (d'Orbigny, 1839) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sjöstedt's Barred OwletGlaucidium sjostedti Reichenow, 1893 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red-chested OwletGlaucidium tephronotum Sharpe, 1875 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Maned OwlJubula lettii (Büttikofer, 1889) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blakiston's Fish OwlKetupa blakistoni (Seebohm, 1884) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tawny Fish OwlKetupa flavipes (Hodgson, 1836) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Buffy Fish OwlKetupa ketupu (Horsfield, 1821) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Verreaux's Eagle-OwlKetupa lactea (Temminck, 1820) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Akun Eagle-OwlKetupa leucosticta (Hartlaub, 1855) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Spot-bellied Eagle-OwlKetupa nipalensis (Hodgson, 1836) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fraser's Eagle-OwlKetupa poensis (Fraser, 1854) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Shelley's Eagle-OwlKetupa shelleyi (Sharpe & Ussher, 1872) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown Fish OwlKetupa zeylonensis (J. F. Gmelin, 1788) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Crested OwlLophostrix cristata (Daudin, 1800) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bare-legged OwlMargarobyas lawrencii (P. L. Sclater & Salvin, 1868) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-throated Screech OwlMegascops albogularis (Cassin, 1849) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Eastern Screech OwlMegascops asio (Linnaeus, 1758) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-capped Screech OwlMegascops atricapilla (Temminck, 1822) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bearded Screech OwlMegascops barbarus (P. L. Sclater & Salvin, 1868) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tropical Screech OwlMegascops choliba (Vieillot, 1817) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rufescent Screech OwlMegascops ingens (Salvin, 1897) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cloud-forest Screech OwlMegascops marshalli (Weske & Terborgh, 1981) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Balsas Screech OwlMegascops seductus (R. T. Moore, 1941) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Whiskered Screech OwlMegascops trichopsis (Wagler, 1832) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tawny-bellied Screech OwlMegascops watsonii (Cassin, 1849) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elf OwlMicrathene whitneyi (J. G. Cooper, 1861) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andaman BoobookNinox affinis Beavan, 1867 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Laughing OwlNinox albifacies (G. R. Gray, 1844) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Australian BoobookNinox boobook (Latham, 1801) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Togian BoobookNinox burhani Indrawan & Somadikarta, 2004 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Barking BoobookNinox connivens (Latham, 1801) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tanimbar BoobookNinox forbesi P. L. Sclater, 1883 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Buru BoobookNinox hantu (Wallace, 1863) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Halmahera BoobookNinox hypogramma (G. R. Gray, 1861) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cinnabar BoobookNinox ios Rasmussen, 1999 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern BoobookNinox japonica (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tasmanian BoobookNinox leucopsis (Gould, 1838) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Camiguin BoobookNinox leventisi Rasmussen, D. Allen, Collar, Hutchinson, Jakosalem, R. S. Kennedy, Lambert & Paguntalan, 2012 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Manus BoobookNinox meeki Rothschild & E. J. O. Hartert, 1914 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mindoro BoobookNinox mindorensis Ogilvie-Grant, 1896 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Christmas BoobookNinox natalis Lister, 1889 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hume's BoobookNinox obscura Hume, 1872 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ochre-bellied BoobookNinox ochracea (Schlegel, 1866) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| New Britain BoobookNinox odiosa P. L. Sclater, 1877 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Luzon BoobookNinox philippensis Bonaparte, 1855 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alor BoobookNinox plesseni Stresemann, 1929 | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Speckled BoobookNinox punctulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) | StrigidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.