Whiskered Screech Owl
Megascops trichopsis
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae
- Genus
- Megascops
- eBird Code
- whsowl1
Subspecies (3)
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Megascops trichopsis aspersus
southeastern Arizona to northwestern Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua)
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Megascops trichopsis mesamericanus
southeastern Mexico (Chiapas) to north-central Nicaragua
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Megascops trichopsis trichopsis
highlands of central Mexico (Durango to Veracruz and Chiapas)
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.