---
title: "Briluil"
description: "Pulsatrix perspicillata — Vogels. The spectacled owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata) also called a Murucututu, is a large tropical owl native to the neotropics."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/spectacled-owl
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Briluil

> Pulsatrix perspicillata — Vogels. The spectacled owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata) also called a Murucututu, is a large tropical owl native to the neotropics.

- Scientific name: *Pulsatrix perspicillata*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 2588
- Wikidata: [Q911908](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q911908)
- iNaturalist taxon: [20020](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/20020)

## Names

- en: Spectacled Owl
- de: Brillenkauz
- es: Búho de anteojos
- fr: Chouette à lunettes
- nl: Briluil
- pt: Murucututu
- pl: Puchaczyk żółtobrzuchy

## Countries with the most observations

CR (785), CO (255), PA (229), BR (213), EC (182), PE (56), BZ (42), GF (42), HN (26), MX (24), GT (22), AR (17)

## Summary

The spectacled owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata) also called a Murucututu, is a large tropical owl native to the neotropics. It is a resident breeder in forests from southern Mexico and Trinidad, through Central America, south to southern Brazil, Paraguay, and northwestern Argentina. There are six subspecies. One is occasionally treated as a separate species called the short-browed or brown-spectacled owl but the consensus is that it is still merely a race until more detailed analysis can be done.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacled_owl

## Photo

![Briluil](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spectacled-owl/medium.jpg)

Photo: NINA WENÓLI · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85271718

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/spectacled-owl?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).