Oriental Bay Owl
Maskeneule ( Phodilus badius )
The Maskeneule ( Phodilus badius ) is a species of the genus Phodilus within the barn owls ( Tytonidae ). It is sometimes classified as the sole representative of its genus. However, recent literature assigns the Sri Lanka - Maskeneule, which is sometimes seen as a subspecies of Maskeneule, a separate species status to.
Features
How the barn owl of the genus Tyto, which also includes the European Barn Owl heard the mask owls have a face veil, which helps them in acoustic orientation. This veil differs from that of Tyto species that the veil springs a line down the middle of the forehead and a nearly triangular area formed in the latter around each eye, much further away at the mask owls from each other and diverge already above the beak. The head bears on both sides spring horns. The toes are relatively short and dyed brown and the middle toe is denticulate. The beak is yellow.
The plumage is on the top maroon - golden on the bottom and white-pink with brown polka dots. The face is bright red-brown plumage and sometimes goes into Whitish, the iris is black.
Lifestyle and dissemination
Mask owls are very shy forest birds and only active at night. They are found at altitudes of 1,500 meters above sea level. Widespread it is in five subspecies between North India, Sri Lanka, to Indonesia, Burma, Sumatra, Borneo, Nias, Beliting, Java, Bali and the Philippines island Bungaran. The subspecies are:
- Badius badius Phodilus
- Phodilus badius saturatus
- Phodilus badius assimilis
- Phodilus badius arixuthus
- Phodilus badius parvus