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Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium nubicola)

About Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium nubicola)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Owls And Nightjars
  • Family: Typical Owls

The cloud-forest pygmy owl or cloudforest pygmy owl 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 occurs; above it, the Andean pygmy owl occurs.

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  • 2023-07-28

    Mindo - Foothills, Ecuador
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