African Barred Owlet

Glaucidium capense

IUCN: Not Evaluated

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

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Glaucidium capense capense

southern Mozambique to KwaZulu-Natal and eastern Cape Province
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
Glaucidium capense etchecopari

patchily distributed in Liberia and Ivory Coast
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
Glaucidium capense scheffleri

far southern coastal Somalia, eastern Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.