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The little owl was formally described in 1769 by the Italian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli under the binomial name Strix noctua. [3] The little owl is now placed in the genus Athene that was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1822. [4] [5] The owl was designated as the type species of the genus by George Robert Gray in 1841.
The association between the owl and the goddess continued through Minerva in Roman mythology, although the latter sometimes simply adopts it as a sacred or favorite bird.. For example, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Corone the crow complains that her spot as the goddess' sacred bird is occupied by the owl, which in that particular story turns out to be Nyctimene, a cursed daughter of Epopeus, king ...
The genus Athene was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1822. [1] The type species was designated as the little owl (Athene noctua) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1841. [2] [3] The genus name is from the little owl which was closely associated with the Greek goddess Athena, and often depicted with her. Her ...
The Burney Relief (also known as the Queen of the Night relief) is a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in high relief of the Isin-Larsa period or Old-Babylonian period, depicting a winged, nude, goddess-like figure with bird's talons, flanked by owls, and perched upon two lions.
The typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk. Eurasian scops-owl, Otus scops; Eurasian eagle-owl, Bubo bubo; Eurasian pygmy-owl, Glaucidium passerinum (*) Little owl, Athene noctua
Athene blewitti (Hume, 1873) 69 White-browed owl: Athene superciliaris (Vieillot, 1817) 70 Burrowing owl: Athene cunicularia (Molina, 1782) 71 Little owl: Athene noctua (Scopoli, 1769) 72 Spotted owlet: Athene brama (Temminck, 1821) 73 West Solomons owl: Athene jacquinoti Bonaparte, 1850: 74 Guadalcanal owl: Athene granti (Sharpe, 1888) 75 ...
English: Distribution map of Little Owl Athene noctua according to IUCN version 2021.2 (Compiled by: BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2019) 2019.); key: Legend: Extant, resident (#008000) , Extant & Introduced (resident) (#FFFF00)
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