Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium brasilianum)

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
15 - 20 cm
Wingspan: 38 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1788)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 2,250 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), USA (B), Venezuela.

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

Population
Estimated population is 20,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (138)...)

Ferruginous Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium brasilianum) [XC789018]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Cristo Rey, Cayo District, Brazil (song)

Ferruginous Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium brasilianum) [XC368470]
by Robson Silva e Silva from Ferreira Gomes, Amap\u00e1, United States (song)

Subspecies
Considered by some authors to form superspecies with Tucuman Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium tucumanum), Peruvian Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium peruanum) and Austral Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium nana). Has been considered to include those as subspecies, but recent studies have shown all to be vocally distinct and to differ in DNA. In past treated as conspecific with Andean Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium jardinii), but again differs in vocalizations and DNA. Northern populations (cactorum, ridgwayi, saturatum) recently proposed as forming separate species (Ridgway's Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium ridgwayi)) but further study is needed. Subspecies pallens perhaps better placed in Tucuman Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium tucumanum).

The following 14 subspecies are recognised:

cactorum van Rossem, 1937 - Southern Arizona south to south-western Mexico.
saturatum Brodkorb, 1941 - Southern Mexico (Chiapas) and Guatemala.
ridgwayi Sharpe, 1875 - Southern Texas through eastern and southern Mexico to Panama. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Ridgway's Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium ridgwayi).
medianum Todd, 1916 - Northern Colombia.
margaritae Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1951 - Margarita I (Venezuela).
phaloenoides (Daudin, 1800) - Northern and eastern Venezuela, Trinidad and the Guianas.
duidae Chapman, 1929 - Southern Venezuela (Mt Duida).
olivaceum Chapman, 1939 - South-eastern Venezuela (Mt Auyan-Tepuí).
ucayalae Chapman, 1929 - Amazonian Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil, south to southern Peru and northern Bolivia.
brasilianum (Gmelin, 1788) - North-eastern Brazil south to north-eastern Argentina and northern Uruguay.
pallens Brodkorb, 1938 - Eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay and northern Argentina.
stranecki K�nig, C & Wink, 1995 - Central Argentina to southern Uruguay.
intermedium Phillips, AR, 1966 - Southern Nayarit to Oaxaca (western Mexico).
tucumanum Chapman, 1922 - Subtropical western Argentina (Salta and Tucum�n to C�rdoba). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Tucuman Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium tucumanum).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium brasilianum) - 10 files

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