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Otus

genus of birds
Taxon taxon Q832329
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Summary

Otus is a taxon[1]. Otus ranks in the top 0.75% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,161 views/month, #1,466 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: true owls[4]
  • Taxon name: Otus[5]
  • Commons category: Otus[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Otus (bird)[7]
  • Commons gallery: Otus[8]
  • Taxon common name: scops owl[9], چغد[10], ਚੁਗ਼ਦ[11]

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Identifiers

Otus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 20190[12]. Otus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 56271[13]. Otus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2497654[14]. Otus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 177855[15].

Why It Matters

Otus has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Otus is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [13] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [15] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i43843
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 01625925-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → true owls
    Instance of → taxon
    Aliases → —
    Taxon rank → genus
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007553471205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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