The Banggai scops owl (''Otus mendeni'') is an

owl Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes (), which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers a ...

found on

Banggai Island Banggai Island is the second largest of the Banggai Islands, an archipelago located at the far eastern end of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The largest island is Peleng Peleng is an island off the east coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia and is the l ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the

Sulawesi scops owl The Sulawesi scops owl (''Otus manadensis'') is an owl found on the Sulawesi island of Indonesia. The Banggai scops owl (''Otus mendeni'') was formerly considered conspecific, but was split as a distinct species by the IOC The Internat ...

(''Otus manadensis''), but was split as a distinct species by the

IOC The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

in 2021.

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Banggai scops owl Birds of the Banggai Islands Banggai scops owl {{Strigiformes-stub