The bird was found on Principe Island. It occupies a relatively small area, about four times the size of New York's Central Park.
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A new species of owl has been discovered in the rainforests of an island off the west coast of Africa.It has been named as such, officially anointed as the Principe Scops-Owl - or Otus bikegila. While local testimonies suggest it could have lived there as far back as 1928, scientists were not able to confirm its presence until 2016.
Principe Scops-Owl has now been pictured after an extensive survey of its homeland by researchers from the Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences and the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto."Otus bikegila's unique call is a short 'tuu' note repeated at a fast rate of about one note per second, reminiscent of insect calls. It is often emitted in duets, almost as soon as the night has fallen," Martim Melo explained.
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