Christy Herrera
LITERATURE
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The Madeiran scops owl ( genus Otus mauli ) is a small extinct owl that once inhabited the
island of Madeira in the Macaronesian archipelago off the north-west coast of Africa in the N
Atlantic Ocean ocean .== story == dodo ivory of the bird of night were found in Quaternary
website on Madeira .It is the first extinct owl species to be described from Macaronesia .The
describers suggest that the most belike cause of quenching was human being settlement in
the early 15th century , with its associated habitat wipeout and the introduction of
extraterrestrial species .exchangeable , though more fragmentary , remains were also found
on the neighbor island of Porto Santo , which may comprise of the same , or a closely related
, coinage .== Description == The owl was standardised in size to the Eurasian scops owl ,
though the branch bones were foresightful .Estimates of its body weight and wing loading
evoke that it was largely ground-dwelling .The extinct São Miguel scops owl was similar but
differs from the Madeiran mintage by the smaller size of many of its bones , especially the
ulna and tibiotarsus .== References ==