Spectacled Owl
Pulsatrix perspicillata
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 1,277
- Most observed in
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The spectacled owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata) also called a Murucututu, is a large tropical owl native to the neotropics. It is a resident breeder in forests from southern Mexico and Trinidad, through Central America, south to southern Brazil, Paraguay, and northwestern Argentina. There are six subspecies. One is occasionally treated as a separate species called the short-browed or brown-spectacled owl but the consensus is that it is still merely a race until more detailed analysis can be done.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Spectacled owl”.