Northern Saw-whet Owl

SCI Name:  Aegolius acadicus
Protonym:  Strix acadica Syst.Nat. 1 pt1 p.296
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Aegolius
Taxonomy Code:  nswowl
Type Locality:  North America, = Nova Scotia, ex Latham.
Author:  Gmelin, JF
Publish Year:  1788
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

AEGOLIUS
(Strigidae; Ϯ Tengmalm's Owl A. funereus) L. aegolius  screech owl  < Gr. αιγωλιος aigōlios  bird of ill omen living in rocks and caves, probably some sort of owl; "11. Strix Tengmalmi.   ...   11. Bergkauz. Aegolius. (Strix Tengmalmi.)  Entw[ickelung]. Die Fußwurzeln und die verkürzten Zehen werden befiedert, Flügel und Schwanz kürzer, der Kopf dicker, und die Ohröffnungen sehr groß.   Char[akter]. Käuze mit dick befiederten Fußwurzeln und Zehen, und großen Ohröffnungen.   Leb[ensart]. Sie lieben Gebirgswaldung und leben wie die übrigen kleinen Eulen, von Mäusen." (Kaup 1829); "Aegolius Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, p. 34. Type, by monotypy, Strix tengmalmi Gmelin = Strix funereus Linné, 1758." (Peters 1940, IV, p. 171).
Var. Aegolia.
Synon. Cryptoglaux, Gisella, Glaux, Microscops, Nudipedes, Nyctala, Nyctalatinus, Ptilipedes, Scotophilus.

aegolius
L. aegolius  screech owl  < Gr. αιγωλιος aigōlios  bird of ill omen living in rocks and caves, probably some sort of owl (syn. Asio flammeus).

acadica / acadicus
Acadia or Acadie (former French colony (= Nova Scotia), Canada).
● ex “Acadian Owl” of Latham 1781: “an inhabitant of Nova Scotia” (Aegolius).
● ex “Lesser Crested Fly-catcher” of Pennant 1785 (?syn. Empidonax minimus).

SUBSPECIES

Northern Saw-whet Owl (acadicus)
SCI Name: Aegolius acadicus acadicus
acadica / acadicus
Acadia or Acadie (former French colony (= Nova Scotia), Canada).
● ex “Acadian Owl” of Latham 1781: “an inhabitant of Nova Scotia” (Aegolius).
● ex “Lesser Crested Fly-catcher” of Pennant 1785 (?syn. Empidonax minimus).

Northern Saw-whet Owl (Haida Gwaii)
SCI Name: Aegolius acadicus brooksi
brooksi
● Maj. Allan Cyril Brooks DSO (1869-1946) Canadian Army, ornithologist, bird artist (subsp. Aegolius acadicus, subsp. Hesperiphona vespertina, subsp. Passerculus sandwichensis).
● William Edwin Brooks (1828-1899) Irish civil engineer in India 1856-1881, and Canada 1881-1899, ornithologist, father of Maj. Allan C. Brooks (syn. Haliaetus albicilla, syn. Phylloscopus subviridis).
● Winthrop Sprague Brooks (1887-1965) US ornithologist, Curator at Museum of Comparative Zoology 1928-1934 (subsp. Oxyruncus cristatus).