Asian barred owlet

The Asian barred owlet (Glaucidium cuculoides) is a species of pygmy owl native to the temperate forests of southern China (Southwest, South Central and parts of East China), northeastern parts of the Indian Subcontinent (Outer Himalaya and Northeast India, Nepal, Bhutan, and northern Bangladesh) and mainland Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam).

Asian barred owlet
A small owl—an owlet—with mottled brown and white feathers, bright yellow irises and a short curved yellow beak is perched on a branch in Sattal, Uttarakhand, India, with its head turned 90 degrees clockwise, looking straight into the camera lens.
Asian barred owlet – Sattal, Uttarakhand, India
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Glaucidium
Species:
G. cuculoides
Binomial name
Glaucidium cuculoides
(Vigors, 1831)
Range of G. cuculoides
  Resident

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Glaucidium cuculoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22689277A93224900. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22689277A93224900.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.

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