Middle American Screech Owl
Megascops guatemalae
IUCN: Not Evaluated
Taxonomy
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae
- Genus
- Megascops
- eBird Code
- vesowl
Vocalizations
Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil · CC_BY_4_0
Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil · CC_BY_4_0
Kathy Daniel · CC0_1_0
Adam Jackson · CC0_1_0
Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC_BY_4_0
geosesarma · CC_BY_4_0
Subspecies (6)
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Megascops guatemalae cassini
eastern Mexico (southern Tamaulipas and northern Veracruz)
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Megascops guatemalae dacrysistactus
mountains of northern Nicaragua
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Megascops guatemalae fuscus
mountains of eastern Mexico (central Veracruz)
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Megascops guatemalae guatemalae
southeastern Veracruz and northeastern Oaxaca (Mexico) including Yucatan Peninsula and Cozumel Island southward to Honduras
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Megascops guatemalae hastatus
western Mexico (southeastern Sonora to Oaxaca)
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Megascops guatemalae vermiculatus
Costa Rica (and western Panama?)
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.