Itombwe Owl
Tyto prigogineiFAMILY
Barn-Owls (Tytonidae)
LAST DOCUMENTED
1996
(27 years)
REGION
Africa
IUCN STATUS
Endangered
Last Documented
Known with certainty from only two records in the Itombwe Mountains of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The type specimen was collected in March 1951 and, much more recently, another was photographed (May 1996) after being captured in a mist net (Butynski et al. 1997).
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