Common
breeding resident distributed throughout the island while becoming
uncommon in the higher hills. It inhabits forest and well wooded
gardens of villages and towns. Collared
Scops Owl lives as pairs and feeds on insects like beetles,
grasshoppers and other small animals such as geckos, mouses, shrews,
etc. The breeding season is from February to May and it lays 2-3 eggs
in a tree hole or a building crevice.
