Buff-fronted Owl (Aegolius harrisii) [XC46011]
by Niels Krabbe from Azuay: upper Yunguilla Valley, Ecuador (call, song, female calls and male song after playback)
Buff-fronted Owl (Aegolius harrisii) [XC427043]
by Rosendo Manuel Fraga from S\u00edtio do Luis Pessoa, Meruoca-CE, Cear\u00e1, Brazil (canto)
Subspecies
Subspecies iheringi perhaps specifically distinct. Population of Cerro Neblina (southern Venezuela), known only from two specimens collected in 1985, has not been subspecifically determined.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
harrisii (Cassin, 1849) - Andes from north-western Venezuela south to north-central Peru.
iheringi (Sharpe, 1899) - Eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, central and eastern Brazil (Ceará to Rio Grande do Sul), south to north-eastern Argentina and north-eastern Uruguay.
dabbenei Olrog, 1979 - North-western Argentina (Tucumán, Salta and Jujuy). Also (possibly this race) western Bolivia.