Re: [KENYABIRDSNET] Re: White-faced Scops Owl on Tumaren

Hi Don,

So my questions are: How valid is the split (Northern and Southern)? Do they overlap? How do you differentiate them in the field without tissue samples and DNA analysis? What's the motivation to split it into two separate species?

Thanks,

Zarek

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 5:40 AM, Don Turner don@originsafaris.info [kenyabirdsnet] <kenyabirdsnet-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Dear James. A most interesting record indeed, which begs the question as to which White-faced Scops Owl it is at Laikipia: Northern (leucotis) or Southern (granti). The area around the equator is supposed to be the transition zone from one to the other, as some pundits would want us to believe !!

Best wishes
Don Turner

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