Bird - Bay Owl 19th cent Raffles collection, Library Postcard c.2000s

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  • Picture / Image:  Bay Owl (Phodilus Badius). From an album of 51 drawings of birds and mammals made at Bencoolen, Sumatra for Sir Stamford Raffles. Watercolour 1824.
  • Publisher:  The British Library, 2007
  • Postally used:  no
  • Stamp:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The bay owls are barn owls of the genus Phodilus, subfamily Phodilinae. Most classification schemes recognize two species in this genus: the Oriental Bay Owl (Phodilus badius) and the Congo Bay Owl (Phodilus prigoginei).

The latter is not well known and was initially considered a subspecies of P. badius; today, however, it is not clear whether the African species would not be better placed in Tyto or a monotypic genus. Both species are nocturnal, and appear similar to other barn owls; they are generally smaller, have ear-like feather tufts (hardly visible in the African species), and a more U-shaped facial disk.

An apparently extinct population from Samar Island might constitute a third species, but the only known specimen has been lost.