Pearl-spotted Owlet (Glaucidium perlatum)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (48)...)

Pearl-spotted Owlet (Glaucidium perlatum) [XC608515]
by Phil Gregory from Lake Mburo National Park, Kiruhura, Western Region, Uganda (call, voices)

Pearl-spotted Owlet (Glaucidium perlatum) [XC420110]
by Sue Riffe from Ndutu Kati Kati Camp, Tanzania (song)

Subspecies
Sometimes considered to form superspecies with Eurasian Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium passerinum), Collared Owlet (Glaucidium brodiei), Northern Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium californicum) and Mountain Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium gnoma) (including recently separated Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium cobanense) and Baja Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium hoskinsii)), but DNA evidence clearly shows that Eurasian Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium passerinum) and Northern Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium californicum) are not closely related. Population of eastern and north-eastern Africa sometimes separated as kilimense, included in licua.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

perlatum (Vieillot, 1818) - Senegambia to western Sudan; possibly also Liberia.
licua (Lichtenstein, MHK, 1842) - Eastern Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda south to northern and eastern South Africa, Angola and Namibia.

References
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Files:

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