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Otus megalotis
Spotted in the twilight zone, 10 meters from the main entrance, on a ledge 10 meters up. Cacupangan Cave System, Brgy. Tagudin, Mabini, Pangasinan.
Efren Vergara Tagorda (Phil. Biodiversity Net) stated, "the eyes of the phil(ippines) scops owl is red orange, the min(danao) scops owl is yellow." http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1676/10.... Photo by Jerry Rendon
Thanks again folks... I was considering using red-eye reduction but... naaaah!
Thanks ya'al. It turns out the color of the eyes is used to ID this!
Spotted on Feb 24, 2009
Submitted on Feb 24, 2012
