Asian barred owlet

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Asian barred owlet
A small owl—an owlet—with mottled brown and white feathers, bright yellow irises and a short curved yellow beak is perched on a branch in Sattal, Uttarakhand, India, with its head turned 90 degrees clockwise, looking straight into the camera lens.
Asian barred owlet – Sattal, Uttarakhand, India
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Glaucidium
Species:
G. cuculoides
Binomial name
Glaucidium cuculoides
(Vigors, 1831)

The Asian barred owlet (Glaucidium cuculoides) is a species of true owl, resident in northern parts of the Indian Subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. It ranges across north central and northeast India, Nepal Bhutan, north Bangladesh, and southeast Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam). Its natural habitat is temperate forest.

References

External links

Media related to Glaucidium cuculoides at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Glaucidium cuculoides at Wikispecies

  • BirdLife species factsheet for Glaucidium cuculoides
  • "Glaucidium cuculoides". Avibase. Edit this at Wikidata
  • "Asian barred owlet media". Internet Bird Collection.
  • Asian barred owlet photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
  • Interactive range map of Glaucidium cuculoides at IUCN Red List maps
  • Audio recordings of Asian barred owlet on Xeno-canto.