Ferruginous Pygmy Owl

Taxonomy

Order

Strigiformes

Family

Strigidae

Genus

Glaucidium

eBird Code

fepowl

Vocalizations

Subspecies (13)

• Glaucidium brasilianum brasilianum

  southern Amazonian Brazil to eastern Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina

• Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum

  southwestern USA (southeastern Arizona) and western Mexico (south to northern Nayarit)

• Glaucidium brasilianum duidae

  tepuis of southern Venezuela (Mount Duida)

• Glaucidium brasilianum intermedium

  western Mexico (south Nayarit southward to southern Oaxaca)

• Glaucidium brasilianum margaritae

  Isla Margarita (off Venezuela)

• Glaucidium brasilianum medianum

  tropical lowlands of northern Colombia

• Glaucidium brasilianum olivaceum

  tepuis of southern Venezuela (Mount Auyan-Tepuí)

• Glaucidium brasilianum pallens

  Chaco of eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, and northern Argentina

• Glaucidium brasilianum phaloenoides

  tropical northern Venezuela, Trinidad, and the Guianas

• Glaucidium brasilianum ridgwayi

  southern Texas (south-central USA) to western Panama

• Glaucidium brasilianum stranecki

  southern Uruguay to central Argentina

• Glaucidium brasilianum tucumanum

  subtropical western Argentina (Salta and Tucumán to Córdoba)

• Glaucidium brasilianum ucayalae

  eastern base of Andes of southeastern Colombia to Peru and northern Bolivia