The new owl's English name comes from Mount Rinjani, Indonesia's second-highest volcano, located on Lombok.
Violence continued for a third day on the Indonesian vacation island of Lombok.
But Lombok remains one of the poorest areas of Indonesia, and locals worry that development will not benefit them.
Dozens of churches and homes were burned during riots in Lombok's capital, Mataram.
"Now that there is a beautiful owl known only from this island, we hope that more bird watchers will visit Lombok, " Sangster said.
If violence can erupt in sleepy Lombok, what place is immune?
But, as Lombok showed, he can't handle all of them simultaneously.
Lombok has fine beaches, beautiful coral, the highest mountain in the region, a benign climate and ambitions to become rich through tourism like its neighbour Bali.
The Middle East boat people have been enticed by a fresh lot of racketeers who seem to be based in the Indonesian islands of Lombok and Flores.
Lombok also remained less visited by bird researchers than other parts of Indonesia, which may explain why it took longer for the Rinjani Scops owl to be identified.
Unlike mostly Muslim Lombok, Bali is a predominantly Hindu island.
The Rinjani Scops owl was first identified in 2003 and has since been spotted only on Lombok island, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the popular resort island of Bali.
Tourism is one of the country's most important foreign exchange earners, but the pictures from Lombok of rock-throwing protesters and gangs upending cars will surely wipe out a big hunk of that revenue.
With a firm grasp of science matched by her eagerness to inform, she transforms her other adventures in places like Madagascar, Hawaii and Lombok into diverting lessons in the biodiversity of island ecosystems.
They include the millions of Indonesians who have been horrified by the rampant separatist and communal violence which has broken out across the vast archipelago, and which this week saw religious killings jump from the Moluccas to the tourist island of Lombok.
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