Pearl-spotted Owlet (Glaucidium perlatum) [XC425461]
by James Bradley from Janjanbureh, Janjanbureh, Central River, Gambia (call)
Pearl-spotted Owlet (Glaucidium perlatum) [XC834117]
by Marc Anderson from Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana (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.