Western Screech Owl

Taxonomy

Order

Strigiformes

Family

Strigidae

Genus

Megascops

eBird Code

wesowl1

Subspecies (9)

• Megascops kennicottii aikeni

  California east of the Sierra Nevada and Nevada eastward to Colorado and western Texas

• Megascops kennicottii bendirei

  Pacific coast of North America from south-central Oregon southward through California (west of the Sierra Nevada) to northwestern Mexico (coastal northern Baja California)

• Megascops kennicottii cardonensis

  northern Baja California

• Megascops kennicottii kennicottii

  Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska southward to southern Oregon

• Megascops kennicottii macfarlanei

  southern British Columbia southward to eastern Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana

• Megascops kennicottii suttoni

  southwestern Texas to Mexican Plateau

• Megascops kennicottii vinaceus

  northern Mexico (southern Sonora and western Chihuahua to northern Sinaloa)

• Megascops kennicottii xantusi

  Cape district of southern Baja California

• Megascops kennicottii yumanensis

  southeastern California and southwestern Arizona to northern Mexico (northwestern Sonora)