Camouflage Of A Scops Owl Stock Photo

This picture was taken at Malda,West Bengal,India,in the month of May.This is a Scops Owl Picture.Scops owls are typical owls family Strigidae mostly belonging to the genus Otus. Approximately 45 living species are known, but new ones are frequently recognized and unknown ones are still being discovered every few years or so, especially in Indonesia. For most of the 20th century, this genus included the American screech owls, which are now again separated in Megascops based on a range of behavioral, biogeographical, morphological and DNA sequence data. Otus is the largest genus of owls in terms of number of species.