African Barred Owlet
Glaucidium capense
Taxonomy
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae
- Genus
- Glaucidium
- eBird Code
- afbowl1
Vocalizations
Subspecies (5)
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Glaucidium capense capense
southern Mozambique to KwaZulu-Natal and eastern Cape Province
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Glaucidium capense castaneum
northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Semliki Valley) and southwestern Uganda (Bwamba Forest); records from southern Cameroon, southwestern Central African Republic, and Congo may refer to this subspecies
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Glaucidium capense etchecopari
patchily distributed in Liberia and Ivory Coast
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Glaucidium capense ngamiense
eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to central Tanzania (including Mafia Island), southward to Angola, northern Namibia, northern Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique
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Glaucidium capense scheffleri
far southern coastal Somalia, eastern Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.