Cloudforest Pygmy Owl Glaucidium nubicola

Cloudforest Pygmy-owl, Refugio Paz de las Aves, Pichincha, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image Refugio Paz de las Aves, Pichincha, Ecuador
November 2019

The Cloudforest Pygmy Owl is distributed on the western slopes of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. See the distribution map at xeno-canto. It is found in the canopy and borders of forest at between 1,400 and 2,000 metres.

Cloudforest Pygmy-owl, Refugio Paz de las Aves, Pichincha, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image Visually similar to Andean Pygmy Owl, which is found at higher elevations, it has a distinctive song with a long series of paired phrases.
Cloudforest Pygmy-owl, Refugio Paz de las Aves, Pichincha, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image

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