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title: "Brown Wood-Owl"
description: "Strix leptogrammica — Aves. The brown wood owl (Strix leptogrammica) is found in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Taiwan, and south China."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/brown-wood-owl
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Brown Wood-Owl

> Strix leptogrammica — Aves. The brown wood owl (Strix leptogrammica) is found in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Taiwan, and south China.

- Scientific name: *Strix leptogrammica*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 946
- Wikidata: [Q616393](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q616393)
- iNaturalist taxon: [19922](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/19922)

## Names

- en: Brown Wood-Owl
- de: Malaienkauz
- es: Cárabo oriental
- fr: Chouette leptogramme
- pl: Puszczyk brunatny

## Countries with the most observations

MY (236), IN (201), TH (93), TW (58), CN (54), LK (45), HK (30), ID (29), KH (7), VN (5), BD (4), NP (4)

## Summary

The brown wood owl (Strix leptogrammica) is found in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Taiwan, and south China. The brown wood owl is a resident breeder in south Asia. This species is a part of the family of owls known as typical owls (Strigidae), which contains most species of owl. It belongs to the earless owl genus Strix.
The brown wood owl is medium large (45–57 cm), with upperparts uniformly dark brown, with faint white spotting on the shoulders. The underparts are buff with brown streaking. The facial disc is brown or rufous, edged with white and without concentric barring, and the eyes are dark brown…

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

## Photo

![Brown Wood-Owl](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-wood-owl/medium.jpg)

Photo: S.MORE · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37894378

## Machine access

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