Taxonomy of the tawny owl

The tawny owl was first described by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae in 1758, under its current scientific name Strix aluco. The binomial derives from the Greek strix "owl" and Italian allocco "tawny owl". Some early descriptions upon review were found to have somehow conflated the very different barn owl by describing it with the same scientific name Strix aluco, which in turn engendered some confusion.

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