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Glaucidium cuculoides

Photo by pN'd
Photo taken: Chantaburi, Thailand

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.

[edit] Taxonomy

Javan Owlet has been split from Asian Barred Owlet.

Eight subspecies are recognized^[1]:

• G. c. cuculoides:

• Himalayas (north-eastern Pakistan and Kashmir to western Sikkim)

• G. c. austerum:

• Eastern Sikkim to Bhutan, north-eastern Assam and north-western Myanmar

• G. c. rufescens:

• North-eastern India, Bangladesh and northern Myanmar

• G. c. bruegeli:

• Southern Myanmar and southern Thailand

• G. c. delacouri:

• Northern Indochina

• G. c. deignani:

• South-eastern Thailand and southern Indochina

• G. c. whitelyi:

• Sichuan, Yunnan and south-eastern China south of Yangtze to north-eastern Vietnam

• G. c. persimile:

• Hainan (southern China)

[edit] Habitat

Forests mostly in foothills and mountains, but locally also in lowland rainforest.

[edit] Behaviour

Active during the day, most vocal in the morning. Flight is undulating.

[edit] References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
2. König, C., F. Weick, & J.-H. Becking. 1999. Owls - a guide to the owls of the world. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300079206 was checked for several of the sections

[edit] External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds