Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Black-and-white Owl FAMILY - Strigidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Ciccaba nigrolineata SYNONYMS - Strix nigrolineata REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 15 Resident, species present all year. 3 Apparently secure in Belize 14 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 14 District Reference Cayo 4 Orange Walk 5 Stann Creek 6 Toledo 8 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Manatee Forest Reserve Heard Wet season 6 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Heard Dry season 4 Chiquibul Forest Reserve 9 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Permanent 13 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 11 Gallon Jug Heard Winter Res 5 Gallon Jug 10 Chiquibul National Park 9 Bladen Nature Reserve Dry season 8 Caracol Archaeological Reserve Heard Dry season 7 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 13 Bladen Branch 8 Macal River 4 Mullins River Drainage 6 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 13 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 13 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 6 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 4 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 9 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 8 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 11 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 13 General Distribution Comments 15* Rare southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Rare Mtn. Pine Ridge/savannas on poor soil. 9* Ballerina Camp; Millionario 8* Forest Hill 4* Francelia Camp and Rubber Camp 3* Permanent resident, fewer than five records in southern hardwood forests and Mountain Pine Ridge. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Miller, B.W.; C.M. Miller. 1992. Preliminary Avian Survey of the Upper Macal River: Rubber Camp and Francelia Camp, pp.55-63. in Macal River Hydroelectric Development Environmental Impact Assessment Rubber Camp and Chalillo Schemes Pre-feasibility Study - Draft Environmental Appendix. Vol. II of III 5 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 6 Miller, C., B. Miller. 1994. Avian Studies in the Upper Mullins River Basin, Feb. and May. Unpublished Report. 7 Miller, B. W., C. M. Miller. 1994, Birds of Caracol, 1988 - 1993. in prep. 8 Brokaw, N. L. V., T. L. Lloyd-Evans. 1987. The Bladen Branch Wilderness. p.38-42. Unpublished report. 9 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 10 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 11 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 12 Howell, S. N. G., S. Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York. Oxford University Press. 13 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 14 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 15 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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