Spectacled Owl
Pulsatrix perspicillata
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae
- Genus
- Pulsatrix
- eBird Code
- speowl1
Subspecies (6)
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Pulsatrix perspicillata boliviana
southern Bolivia and northern Argentina
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Pulsatrix perspicillata chapmani
eastern Costa Rica and Panama to Colombia, western Ecuador, and northwestern Peru
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Pulsatrix perspicillata perspicillata
eastern Colombia to Venezuela, the Guianas, Brazil, and northern Bolivia
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Pulsatrix perspicillata pulsatrix
Paraguay to eastern Brazil (Bahia) and northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
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Pulsatrix perspicillata saturata
southern Mexico (Veracruz and Oaxaca) to western Panama (Chiriquí)
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Pulsatrix perspicillata trinitatis
Trinidad
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.