Cloud-forest Pygmy Owl

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同属物种

African Barred Owlet

African Barred Owlet

Amazonian Pygmy Owl

Amazonian Pygmy Owl

Andean Pygmy Owl

Andean Pygmy Owl

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Asian Barred Owlet

Austral Pygmy Owl

Austral Pygmy Owl

Central American Pygmy Owl

Central American Pygmy Owl

形态与习性

The cloud-forest pygmy owl or cloudforest pygmy owl (Glaucidium nubicola) is a short, muscular, small-sized species of owl found throughout the Andes of western Colombia and north-western Ecuador, being confined to cloud forests between 900–2000 m a.s.l. Below this altitudinal range the Central American pygmy owl (Glaucidium griseiceps) occurs; above it, the Andean pygmy owl (Glaucidium jardinii) occurs. Its epithet nubicola is Latin for "cloud-inhabiting", because this species is restricted to