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Itombwe Owl

Tyto prigoginei

FAMILY

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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