Scotopelia peli (Bonaparte, 1850)

Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni & Pavia, Marco, 2022, An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso, Zoosystema 44 (2), pp. 27-107 : 55

Scotopelia peli (Bonaparte, 1850)

LITERATURE. — Green & Sayer (1979); Dowsett (1993); Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Portier et al. (2002); Balanca et al. (2007); Sinclair & Ryan (2010); Dowsett et al. (2013); Williams et al. (2014).

MUSEUM MATERIAL. — MCCI 4196.

FIELD DATA. — eBird.

STATUS. — Resident.

REMARK. — Scattered evidences for the extreme west and south borders. The reported museum sample is referred to a single moulted primary feather found at the Burkina Faso-Ivory Coast border, Le Copalier, Comoé-Léraba classified forest, 9°45’37”N, 4°35’49”W, in the riverine forest near the confluence of Lèraba and Comoe rivers, 9.XII.2012.