Collared Owlet (Glaucidium brodiei)

Other Names (World)
Collared Owlet, Pygmy Owlet, Pygmy Owl, Collared Pygmy Owlet, Collared Pygmy-owl, Banded Pygmy-owl

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Burton, 1836)

Habitat
Subtropical amd temperate forests, from the foothills to high mountains. Prefers taller trees. Descendents to lower elevations in winter.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh (B), Bhutan (B), Brunei Darussalam (B), Cambodia (B), China (mainland) (B), India (B), Indonesia (B), Laos (B), Malaysia (B), Myanmar (B), Nepal (B), Pakistan (B), Taiwan (China) (B), Thailand (B), Vietnam (B).

Unknown to Afghanistan (E).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Active during both day and night.

Voice
A soft series of clear, level four-note hoots, 'toot-toot-toot-toot', repeated for several minutes, during both the day and night.

Subspecies
Sometimes considered to form superspecies with Eurasian Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium passerinum), Pearl-spotted Owlet (Glaucidium perlatum), 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.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

brodiei (Burton, 1836) - From northern Pakistan through Himalayas to south-eastern Tibet, northern Indochina, south, central and eastern China (including Hainan), and south to Malaysia.
pardalotum (Swinhoe, 1863) - Taiwan.
peritum (Bonaparte, 1850) - Sumatra.
borneense Sharpe, 1893 - Borneo.
sylvaticum (Bonaparte, 1850) - Sumatra.

References
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Files:

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