This species has had four Enlish names that I know of over the past 25 years! Striated / Bruce's / Pale and Pallid Scops Owl. Which ever you choose during the whole of that period most people who have seen this bird have seen it at this site -the Ghulane Tea Gardens on the banks of the Euphrates River in Birecik, Turkey.
Every year from when I first heard about them 25 years ago it was reported to get there and see them quick as the site was going to be developed and the Tea Gardens demolished. I can report that in 2013 they are still going strong and are packed every evening with men playing 'OK' a game not unlike numerical scrabble and on the evidence we saw the site looks safe. This pair had four young they were attending in the trees in the quieter part of the gardens - that reserved for women and children only!! Needless to say they were very amused at out presence their walled off part of the tea garden :)
One of our party was shown a roosting Pale Scops by local children in the trees immediately to the south of the Tea Gardens so it would apprear there is more than one territory locally.
Waited a long time to see this bird and it completes the set of Western Palearctic Owls for me :) :) :)