Brown Wood Owl Strix leptogrammica at Surrey Bird Sanctuary, Welimada, Sri Lanka.
Date 17 January 2014, 11:29:15
Source Flickr: Brown Wood Owl
Author Koshy Koshy https://www.flickr.com/people/97235261@N00
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strix_leptogrammica_-Surrey_Bird_Sanctuary,_Welimada,_Sri_Lanka_-8a.jpg

The brown wood owl (Strix leptogrammica) is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka east to western Indonesia and south China. This species is a part of the family of owls known as typical owls (Strigidae), which contains most species of owl. It belongs to the earless owl genus Strix.
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Strix
Species: Strix leptogrammica Temminck, 1831