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 LC    Red-chested Owlet* Id (Atlas):
    Glaucidium tephronotum

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Red-chested Owlet, Yellow-legged Owlet

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
21 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sharpe, 1875

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 2150 m.

Range (Guide)
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (17)...)

 
Red-chested Owlet (Glaucidium) [XC363355]
     by Mathias D'haen from Zimmerman Plot, Kakamega Forest, Kenya (song)

 
Red-chested Owlet (Glaucidium tephronotum) [XC233344]
     by Martin St-Michel from Kakamega National Park, Kakamega, Kenya (song)

Subspecies
Proposed subspecies lukolelae from central-western Zaire and kivuense from eastern Zaire included within subspecies medje.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • tephronotum Sharpe, 1875   -  Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.
  • pycrafti Bates, 1911   -  Cameroon.
  • medje Chapin, 1932   -  Congo Basin, eastern Zaire and south-western Uganda.
  • elgonense Granvik, 1934   -  Eastern Uganda and western Kenya.



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Red-chested Owlet (Glaucidium tephronotum) - 10 files


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