Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium costaricanum)

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
Robbins & Stiles, 1999

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, dry forest, lowland moist shrubland. From 900 - 1,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Costa Rica, Panama.

Central Costa Rica to western Panama, possibly to eastern Panama.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

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

Costa Rican Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium costaricanum) [XC72493]
by Jerome Fischer from Parque Nacional Tapanti, La Esperanza entrance, Cartago, Costa Rica (song)

Costa Rican Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium costaricanum) [XC9479]
by William Adsett from Savegre Mountain Lodge, Savegre Valley, San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica (song)

Subspecies
Glaucidium jardinii (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium costaricanum) and Andean Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium jardinii) following AOU (2000).

Has recently been considered by some authors as conspecific with Mountain Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium gnoma). Probably related to the recently discovered Cloudforest Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium nubicola).

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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