European Scops-Owl (Common Scops-Owl) - Otus scops - Dwergooruil
Europe, West-Asia and North-Africa. Winters to Africa.

The following 6 subspecies are being recognised:
Otus scops scops - France and Mediterranean Islands to Volga River, North-Greece and Transcaucasia;
Otus scops pulchellus - Volga River to Lake Baikal and south to Altai and Tien Shan Mountains;
Otus scops mallorcae - Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, North-Morocco, Algeria and Tunesia;
Otus scops cycladum - South-Greece and Crete, South-Asia Minor, Israel, South-Turkey and Jordan;
Otus scops turanicus - Iraq through Iran and South-Transcaspia to Northwest-Pakistan;
Otus scops cyprius - Cyprus.

Of this species there are no Nature Photo's available.