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Black-capped screech owl

Megascops atricapilla

Photo by BrunoMoller
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

•They eat arthropods and small vertebrates.
•They are nocturnal.
•They nest in tree holes and abandoned nests of other birds.

Habitat:

Temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, heavily degraded former forest
-I saw this owl in São Paulo(SP, Brazil)

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