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Simeulue scops owl

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ1263406 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Simeulue scops owl (Otus umbra) is an owl species endemic to the island of Simeulue, Indonesia.

References

External links

BirdLife species factsheet for Otus umbra

"Otus umbra". Avibase.

"Simeulue scops owl media". Internet Bird Collection.

Interactive range map of Otus umbra at IUCN Red List

Audio recordings of Simeulue scops owl on Xeno-canto.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Simeulue scops owl” is species of bird. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Simeulue, scops and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 54-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Simeulue, scops and species is the immediate research focus.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1263406. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Simeulue scops owl” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.