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Flame on! 🔥

Feet make the raptor after all!

Crossbreed owls is a topic I'm looking into!

Not me literally breeding them, me researching them!

I couldn't make up my mind until your comment. Ent owl it is!

I second that - this is such a fun idea and great way to learn about owls!

It's been a ton of fun, and it's been great seeing even more of the regulars like yourself, but especially these last few days so many names I've never seen comment before!

I always forget to ask you, are you just named after the actual Hussars, or is it a reference to the Sabaton song about those Hussars? If it's alluding to the band, I found a YouTube channel the other day where a historian teams up with the singer to discuss the history of the events of the songs and I enjoyed it, so if that was relevant to you, I thought you may enjoy it.

Sabaton History

Oh, apologies, I didn't notice your instance, so I'll assume your actual Dutch is a million times better. 😅

What a Scops Owl is gets a little tricky. The Indian Scops Owl was the first to be named Scops, specifically Otus scops. Both are Greek words, otus meaning horned/eared, and skops meaning little owl. So Scops Owls used to include the ones you're probably thinking, based on that description, the stout little horned owls like the Screech Owl and our new little buddy, the Flammulated Owl.

The problem was that there were too many Scops Owls, that there were enough differences between them three genus got split up. Screech Owls got assigned to Megascops. Flammulated guy assigned to Psiloscops. There's a few other new Scops genuses, but they usually only have 1 or 2 species in them. Now Otus refers to the Old World (African and Eurasian) Scops Owls. So now Scops are. Basically any owl that looks sorta like a Screech Owl, but isn't in the Americas.

Flammys are found in those Ponderosa forests of the American West, so it makes sense they'd get that name.

Indian Scops Owl