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title: "Pacific Screech-Owl"
description: "Megascops cooperi — Aves. The Pacific screech owl (Megascops cooperi) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/pacific-screech-owl
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pacific Screech-Owl

> Megascops cooperi — Aves. The Pacific screech owl (Megascops cooperi) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae.

- Scientific name: *Megascops cooperi*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 779
- Wikidata: [Q537481](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537481)
- iNaturalist taxon: [19740](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/19740)

## Names

- en: Pacific Screech-Owl
- de: Mangroveeule
- es: Tecolote de Cooper
- fr: Petit-duc de Cooper
- nl: Mangrove-schreeuwuil
- pl: Syczoń namorzynowy

## Countries with the most observations

CR (410), MX (118), NI (76), SV (38), HN (33), GT (4)

## Summary

The Pacific screech owl (Megascops cooperi) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.  The Pacific screech owl has sometimes been treated as a race of western screech owl (Megascops kennicottii) or eastern screech owl (M. asio) but its vocalizations are distinct from theirs. Two subspecies are recognized, the nominate M. c. cooperi and M. c. lambi. The latter has also sometimes been treated as a separate species. The IUCN has assessed the Pacific screech owl as being of Least Concern. Its population is estimated to exceed 50,000…

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

## Photo

![Pacific Screech-Owl](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pacific-screech-owl/medium.jpg)

Photo: Don Wellmann · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/198619684

## Machine access

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