Oriental bay owl, Phodilus badius - Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Date 29 September 2014, 20:29:29
Author Rushenb https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rushenb
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oriental_bay_owl,_Phodilus_badius_-_Khao_Yai_National_Park.jpg

The oriental bay owl (Phodilus badius) is a type of bay owl, usually classified with barn owls. It is completely nocturnal, and can be found throughout Southeast Asia. It has several subspecies. It has a heart-shaped face with earlike extensions. The Congo bay owl (Phodilus prigoginei) was formerly classified as a subspecies of Oriental bay owl due to insufficient knowledge, but it has turned out that it might not even belong to the same genus. The Sri Lanka bay owl was also considered a subspecies.
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Tytonidae
Genus: Phodilus
Species: Phodilus badius (Horsfield, 1821)