Red-chested Owlet

Glaucidium tephronotum

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Strigiformes
Family
Strigidae
Genus
Glaucidium
eBird Code
recowl1

Subspecies (3)

  • Glaucidium tephronotum medje

    middle Congo River Basin, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southwestern Uganda, and western Kenya

  • Glaucidium tephronotum pycrafti

    forest of southern Cameroon

  • Glaucidium tephronotum tephronotum

    equatorial forest of Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana

Data Sources

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.